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  • GM Seeks to Cut Wages in Half at Indianapolis Factory
    Jane Slaughter
    Jul 27 2010 - 4:09pm

    GM stamping plant workers in Indianapolis have told the company they won’t cut their wages in half, even when threatened with a shutdown. A prospective buyer of the 650-worker factory has indicated he wants United Auto Workers members to drop from $29 an hour to $14.65.

  • Key GM Parts Plants Refuse To Be Whipsawed
    Jane Slaughter
    Apr 16 2010 - 5:54pm

    Auto workers at a Michigan GM plant voted down big wage cuts by a 2-1 margin March 31 despite intense whipsawing against sister plants by company and International union officials. . . .

  • GM’s Battery Plant Opens Non-Union
    Al Benchich
    Mar 19 2010 - 6:55pm

    The “reinvention” of the “New GM” began with the opening of a lithium-ion battery plant in Brownstown, Michigan, near Detroit. The event not only signals GM’s return to electric vehicles—for the first time in about 30 years, GM has opened a non-union plant in the U.S.

  • Non-Majority Auto Union in North Carolina Fights to Soften the Blow of Layoffs
    Tiffany Ten Eyck
    Jan 22 2010 - 10:34am
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    Most union workers laid off in the economic crisis had recall rights—a promise they’d get called back before their employer could hire new workers along with the ability to maintain seniority. But millions of workers simply lost their jobs. That’s what happened to nearly 200 workers at the Cummins engine plant in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in March last year. . . .

  • More Concessions? Ford Workers Tell UAW: ‘No!’ ‘No!’ ‘No!’
    Ron Lare
    Nov 21 2009 - 1:59am
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    “No!” “No!” “No!” It started with a simple question, “Can you hear me?” Bob King, a United Auto Workers vice president, was inside Ford’s Dearborn Truck Plant, near Detroit. He was ready to tell a crowd of rank-and-file members why they should vote for more concessions to the automaker, the only U.S. car company showing a profit.