Volt Plant Will Take A Three-Week Summer Vacation
DETROIT -- General Motors Co. will suspend production of the Chevrolet Volt for an extra week this summer as it tries to control the electric car's in...
DETROIT -- General Motors Co. will suspend production of the Chevrolet Volt for an extra week this summer as it tries to control the electric car's in...
Posted 03.30.2012
After Chrysler got the buzz it intended from its Clint Eastwood-backed "Halftime in America" Super Bowl ad, the automaker is moving on to the "second ...
David Kiley | Posted 05.16.2012
If Ford matters to you, you are going to want to read "American Icon."
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.05.2012
Three years later, after President Obama placed his faith in workers, the nation's economic outlook is brighter. As is that of GM and Chrysler. President Obama wagered on American workers. And it paid off.
AP | Posted 03.01.2012
DETROIT -- General Motors says its U.S. sales rose 1 percent last month, led by its small cars. Analysts had expected the company to post lower sales...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.28.2012
It's illogical, even unpatriotic to use tax dollars to subsidize companies that send jobs overseas, transferring America's manufacturing power to foreign countries like China.
Posted 07.28.2011
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Nick Aziz | Posted 05.25.2011
Yes, there are management problems. Yes, the wage gap must be eliminated. But when it's all said and done, the product is what will make or break the Detroit Three.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit U.S. auto plants in Michigan and Illinois next week to highlight his administration's decision to...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
Disappearing ingenuity, poor design and dreadful marketing is to blame for Detroit's troubles, not the poor schlep who toils on the assembly-line for eight hours a day.
Charlie Cray | Posted 05.25.2011
How is it that we seem to be using taxpayer money to rescue the U.S. auto companies, rather than restoring the U.S. auto industry?
Josh Tickell | Posted 05.25.2011
How many biodiesels could we put on the road with the $15-30 billion the Big 3 Auto Monsters are going to receive? Let's tell Congress how many!
wsj.com | MATTHEW DOLAN, NEIL KING JR. And JOHN D. STOLL | Posted 05.25.2011
Members of President Barack Obama's auto task force met with top procurement executives from General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC thi...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.
Huffington Post/AP | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011
The Big Three automakers - GM, Chrysler, Ford - and their foreign counterparts tried to show that they're committed to environmentally-friendly, fashi...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In a statement sent out just now from his communications shop, President-elect Barack Obama announced his agreement with the Bush administration's dec...
Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011
A Republican with a consistently bad record on environmental issues has just been nominated to run the Department of Transportation.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...
Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011
The Senate decided that it is more important to break a union, more important to throw middle class wage earners into the ranks of the working poor than to prevent the total collapse of industrial America.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011
I really hate it when I find myself siding with the Republican Party on policy but I think this auto industry bailout is a piss-poor idea and I find myself rooting for the GOP to kill it.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.
Barry Levinson | Posted 05.25.2011
I am beginning to lose my mind when I watch NFL football on Sunday. It's not the game that troubles me; it's the truck commercials.
AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The U.S. auto industry's problems will cost taxpayers plenty whether or not the government helps Detroit. Just walking away and le...
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 04.02.2012