A strike by over 49,000 United Auto workers against General Motors could have been averted had the company made its latest offer sooner, the union's top negotiator said in a letter to the company. In the letter dated Sunday, UAW Vice President Terry Dittes told ...
UAW says its 49,000 members at GM plants will go on strike after contract talks collapse
The United Auto Workers union announced that its roughly 49,000 members at General Motors plants in the U.S. will go on strike Sunday night because contract negotiations with the automaker had broken down. The decision came after about 200 plant-level union leaders voted unanimously in ...
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused American pharmaceutical companies Sunday of letting diabetic patients die out of "greed," after he accompanied a group of Americans to Canada to buy insulin. Sanders joined the group, which took a bus from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, to restock on ...
The Detroit auto show was abuzz over what Ford and Volkswagen would announce Tuesday, after the car giants called off a joint appearance during which they were widely expected to announce an alliance. The two car giants have been in discussions for more than six ...
GM to slash up to 14,000 jobs in North America, may shutter five factories
General Motors will lay off up to 14,000 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles. The reduction includes 8,100 white-collar workers, some of ...
Mike Pence stuns Jews with election event prayers by 'Christian rabbi' after synagogue massacre
American Jews, in shock over the massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue, voiced outrage Tuesday after Vice President Mike Pence hosted an election event with a "Christian rabbi." Pence took part late Monday in a campaign rally for Lena Epstein, a Jewish Republican ...
Japan can learn a lot from Detroit's recovery efforts
Five years after Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, the city is starting to recover economically through efforts to fill vacant homes and rebuild the once-desolate downtown. Japan, witnessing depopulation on a massive scale due to its aging society and low birthrate, ...
Five years after declaring bankruptcy, Detroit boasts rebirth — but at a cost
It has been five years since Detroit bottomed out after decades of decline, admitting in the largest U.S. municipal bankruptcy filing ever that the country's one-time industrial engine could no longer pay its bills. The turnaround since then has been remarkable, with major investments that ...
Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a preteen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally. Azerine Jones is a retired baker. But in 1967 she was the 12-year-old ...
Nissan expands sales to rental companies, but analysts warn of risk
When his car needed weeks of transmission work and his dealer was out of loaners, Myles Arnett was sent to a nearby Hertz rental car lot. He had his pick of Nissan Altima and Sentra sedans to choose from — and little else. "Over the ...
Trump tries to get back on track with Detroit economic speech amid protests
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday sought to regain momentum with an economic speech in which he floated new tax breaks and cuts to regulation, as protesters repeatedly interrupted him. Trump said his plan would include imposing a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations, ...
Detroit prosecutor denies trying to railroad innocent youth into four-count murder conviction
A prosecutor who urged a judge to throw out a young man's guilty pleas to four killings after he spent eight years in prison defended how the case was handled on Thursday, saying her office swiftly sought his release when state police cast doubt ...
