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Ford Workers Reject Contract changes

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Gm, Wages, Cost of Living, Ford, Jobs, Cars, Cola, Automakers, Labor Costs, Hours, Chrysler, UAW Contract, Unemployment, New Contract, Increases, Labor Contract, Detroit, Uaw, Ford Contract, Auto Bailout, Business News

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. workers have overwhelmingly rejected contract changes that would have allowed the automaker to cut labor costs, leaving...

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Growing Up In Detroit: Community Organizing With Mostaccioli

Nancy Cronk | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Growing Up, Large Families, Uaw, Unemployment, Chrysler, Economy, Detroit, Gm, Community Organizing, Italian Food, Ford, Unions, Living News
Nancy Cronk

Raising a big family was tough for my parents. Feeding eleven people on an auto-workers income meant everything my parents did required effort and creativity.

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The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform

Ron Gettelfinger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Uaw, Medicare, Public Option, Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Kennedy, Ron Gettelfinger, Politics News
Ron Gettelfinger

Healthy economies and healthy communities require good jobs and good wages. The collective voice of a union is the only instrument workers have to put a check on corporate power.

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The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform

Ron Gettelfinger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Uaw, Medicare, Public Option, Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Kennedy, Ron Gettelfinger, Politics News
Ron Gettelfinger

Healthy economies and healthy communities require good jobs and good wages. The collective voice of a union is the only instrument workers have to put a check on corporate power.

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The Old Packard Plant: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Studebaker-Packard, New Jersey, Gilbert Smith, Avanti, Automobile Industry, Alabama, Tennessee, Purple Gang, Tommy Bridges, The South, Packard Motor Company, African Americans, Detroit, UAW., Living News
Lester Sloan

While the old Packard is an image of urban decay, it has nothing to do with the demise of the auto industry as we know it today.

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GM Layoffs: Thousands Of Factory Jobs Likely To Be Cut

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business

Read More: GM Layoffs, Uaw, Gm, General Motors Buyouts, Gm Factory Workers, Business News

DETROIT — About 6,000 General Motors Co. blue-collar workers have taken the latest round of early retirement and buyout offers, but it fell shor...

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AIG Shows Why We Need the Employee Free Choice Act

Mike Elk | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Employee Free Choice Act, Bailout, Wall Street, Calpers, Aig Bonuses, AIG Bailout, Pension-Funds, Business News
Mike Elk

Unions, representing the combined interests of everyday Americans, can be a valuable instrument in fighting for the interests of all, not just those at the top.

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GM Pension Fund: Is It Under Funded

nytimes.com | MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: GM Pension Fund, GM Retirees, Gm, GM Bankruptcy, Pensions, General Motors, Gm Chapter 11, UAW Pension Fund, Uaw, Business News

General Motors is using its huge pension fund in a way it never intended. It had planned -- and put money aside -- for a steady march of retirees o...

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Send Those UAW Workers Over to Wal-Mart!

Al Norman | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Michigan Chamber of Commerce, $6.3 Million a Day on Advertising, General Motors, South Carolina, Carolina Forest, Uaw, Wal-Math, 22000 New Jobs, Business News
Al Norman

Wal-Mart creates a form of mathematics not taught in any school. It's called Wal-Math, and it works this way: 1 job created by Wal-Mart, minus 1 job killed at a smaller retailer = 1 job.

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Chrysler & GM: What Happens if Your Car Blows Up?

Don McNay | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Injury Victims, Trial Lawyers, Ford Pinto, American Bar Association, Uaw, Toyota, Bankruptcy, Tort Reform, Chrysler, GM Bankruptcy, Honda, Bailouts, Kentucky, Don McNay, Ford, Buick, Structured Settlements, American Association for Justice, Insurance, General Motors, Product Liability, Richmond Ky, Hyundai, Traumatic Brain Injury, Lexington KY, Aaa, Detroit Bailout, Detroit, Aaj, Personal Responsibility, Auto Bailout, Personal Finance, Business News
Don McNay

I know I'll never forget that horrible sight, I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right. Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve. -Jan a...

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The Death of GM: A Much Needed Wake-Up Call

Bobbie Wasserman | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Autoworkers, General Motors, Gm, General Motors Bankruptcy, American Jobs, Unions, Business News
Bobbie Wasserman

This is not a worker problem, it's a management problem. Autoworkers produce quality products. It was management that decided what those products would be.

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Goodbye, GM

Michael Moore | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Uaw, Bankruptcy, Flint, General Motors, Alternative Energy, Michael Moore, United Auto Workers, Gm, Detroit, Roger & Me, Green Energy, Pollution, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Business News
Michael Moore

Let's be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority.

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Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Nickolas, Supreme Court, White House, Autoworkers, Burris, Constitutional Crisis, Power Struggle, Founding Fathers, Detainee Deaths, Gingrich, President, War Crimes, Rnc, Courts, Princeton, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Sotomayor, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Pussy Galore, Un, Ralph Nader, Judicial Activism, Republican National Committee, Court, Twitter, Terry McAuliffe, Congress, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Constitution, Mddotw, Rod Blagojevich, Sonia Sotomayor, Truth Commission, Youtube, Banks, Hillary Clinton, Uaw, Bonuses, Up or Down Vote, Michael Guest, Same Sex, Nader, President Obama, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, United Nations, Blaggy, Filibuster, Bankers, Obama, Scotus, Prejudice, Auschwitz, Blago, Republican, Government, Blagojevich, Lionel Sosa, Pelosi, Clinton, Activism, Federal Government, Bias, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Defense of Marriage Act, Legislating From the Bench, Benefits, Gm, Pyne Prize, Roland Burris, Philip Alston, Gay, State Department, Checks and Balances, Mcauliffe, Chris Kelly, Secretary of State, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Spousal Benefits, Nominee, Doma, Torture, Alston, Politics News
Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

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Crash diet: GM getting in shape for Chapter 11

AP | TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Uaw, General Motors, General Motors Bankruptcy, Detroit Three, Gm, GM Chrysler Bankruptcy, Detroit Bailout, Business News

DETROIT — The speed at which General Motors Corp. exits bankruptcy protection would depend a lot on the shape the company is in when it enters. GM h...

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Michigan Will Lead the Green Industrial Revolution

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Uaw, Chevy Volt, Big Three Automakers, Electric Cars, Detroit, Green Energy, Michigan, Chrysler, Gm, Ford, Green News
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm

Some doubters on this website have advocated "pulling the plug on Detroit." Instead, I invite you to plug in to the power of American ingenuity and American transformation.

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U.S. Government Expected To Own 70% Of GM

nytimes.com | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Detroit Automakers, Uaw, General Motors, GM Bankruptcy, United Auto Workers, Obama Administration, Detroit Bailout, Business News

DETROIT -- The government will hold a large share of a restructured General Motors after the company emerges from bankruptcy protection, and will prov...

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Government vs. Investors, Round One

Alan Schram | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Chrysler, Obama, Uaw, Financial Crisis, Obama Auto Industry, Business News
Alan Schram

A world where the president bristles at contract rights to marshal the huge resources of government in a war against investors is a world where companies will find it very hard to borrow.

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Car-Nage or Industrial Policy?

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Chrysler Fiat, Uaw, Unemployment, Socialists, Bondholders, Chrysler, Gm, Barack Obama, Middle Class, Auto Bailout, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

We so completely lack an industrial policy that we are presently working to spend money to maintain our car market while decimating U.S. domestic car producers.

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Auto Industry Teammates

Dan Dubno | Posted 06.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Uaw, Automaker Bailout, Bail Out, Dan Dubno, Cars, Chrysler Bailout, Ford, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Business News
Dan Dubno

We all know that the car occupies a central position in our way of life, yet aside from adding DVD players and coffee cup holders, we've done little to integrate ideas from the rest of our society.

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Detroit: From Socialism to Capitalism

Diane Francis | Posted 06.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Chrysler, Gm, Fiat, Cars, Chrysler Bailout, Canada, Uaw, Detroit, Barack Obama, Car Bailout, Business News
Diane Francis

There are many ironies in the Detroit saga, but most striking is the fact that state "socialism" may finally turn North America's car industry players into capitalists.

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Chrysler Vultures May Win Too

Diane Francis | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Automakers, Gmac, Chrysler, Auto Bailout, President Obama, Bankruptcy, General Motors, Hedge Funds, Fiat, Caw, Car Woes, Uaw, Auto Industry, Detroit, Cars, Business News
Diane Francis

So here's what is next: Chrysler's hedge funds will make money on the deal because the courts will award something.

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The Double-Standardization Of Double Standards

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uaw, GM Bailout, Chrysler, GM Bankruptcy, GM Chrysler Deal, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Economy, Bank of America, Aig, Chrysler Bailout, Ford, Barack Obama, Wall Street Crisis, General Motors, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Ron Gettelfinger, Timothy Geithner, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Hummer, Citigroup, Double Standard, Politics News
Stuart Whatley

Surely there is nothing new about double standards in business and finance, especially in the current crisis. In fact, there may even be a rising double standard for what constitutes a double standard.

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Creep of the Week: AIG Bonus Grantor Edward M. Liddy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxpayer Bailouts, Aig, Wall Street, United Auto Workers, Big Three Auto Companies, Usw, Washington Post, Credit Default Swaps, United Steelworkers, Uaw, American International Group, Creep of the Week, Bonuses, Edward M. Liddy, Economy, Aig Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Recession, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Financial Crisis, Aig Federal Bailouts, Wall Street Bonuses, AIG Scandal, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

AIG Chairman Edward M. Liddy gets the Creep of the Week award for his stunning, overwhelming, dumbfounding display of cluelessness.

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AIG v. Detroit - Renegotiating Contracts

Steve Parker | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, Boeing, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Barney Frank, Cars, Job Bank, Harvard, Aig, Wwwtalkradioonecom, General Motors, Dodge Challenger, Fiat, Sema, Bob Nardelli, Allstate, Tarp, Elijah Cummings, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Dearborn, Washington DC, Ford Motor Co, Las Vegas, Detroit Automakers, Chrysler, Chrysler Jeep, Wharton, Ron Gettelfinger, Yale University, Ford Mustang, Uaw, Edward Liddy, Business News
Steve Parker

Congress could throw hundreds of billions at GM, Ford and Chrysler -- but how could the results be any different from what we see now?'

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Detroit Gets 10% of What AIG Already Has Received from TARP

Steve Parker | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Europe, Congress, President Obama, Representative Sandy Levin, Chicago, TARP Money, Captive Imports, Detroit Three, Walter Reuther, Cars, Washington DC, Asia, American International Group, Joe Kennedy, Charles Ponzi, Yale Galanter, Ford Motor Co, Fdr, Chrysler, Aig, Tom Wolfe, Senate, Senator Carl Levin, Harvard University, Wall Street, General Motors, Uaw, Masters of the Universe, US Chamber of Commerce, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Business News
Steve Parker

Why does Detroit get only 10% of what the banks and Wall Street have been loaned?

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