Stellantis Kokomo Plant Crippled by Union Strike After Failed Talks Over HVAC Issues
10 Sep 2022, 20:13 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The United Auto Workers representing Stellantis' Indiana factory employees demand better working conditions and a change in "work rules"
Toledo Jeep Plant Hiring 1,000 Part-Time Workers
13 Mar 2014, 10:59 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Chrysler Group is looking to hire up to 1,000 part-time employees for its Toledo Assembly plant in Ohio. The new workers will keep Jeep Wrangler and Cherokee production moving, while regular employe...
Ford Reports 2013 Pre-Tax Profit of $8.6 Billion, Workers Get $8,800 Bonus
29 Jan 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ford Motor Company has announced a pre-tax profit of $8.6 billion for 2013, an increase of $603 million compared to the previous year and its highest full year automotive pre-tax profit in more than...
Serbian Fiat Worker Vandalizes 500Ls
31 May 2013, 16:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Yesterday, we showed you a video of how Fiat 500Ls were rolling off a cargo boat as they made their arrival in America. Happy days for Fiat, right? Not really, at least not for the employees. Acc...
Detroiters More Responsible with Cash Bonuses
7 Mar 2011, 10:23 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are back in the game and, as all three performed pretty well last year, they started offering financial bonuses to their employees. Ford will reward workers with ar...
GM Caps Workers' Wages for 2011
11 Dec 2010, 17:52 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / GM’s 26,000 salaried employees won’t get a raise in 2011, in spite of a turnaround in the company’s balance sheet, and CEO Dan Ackerson requesting “greater flexibility”...
GM India Workers Go on Strike
30 Oct 2010, 17:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The work at the GM Halol plant in Gujarat, India, stopped today due to a strike of the workers there, who are demanding an increase in wages. The strike started as the plant was getting ready to sta...
Chrysler Workers Drink and Smoke Pot During Breaks
24 Sep 2010, 06:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's no more hiding from the eye of the TV camera, now is there? This is perhaps the main idea crossing through the minds of a group of Chrysler workers from the Jefferson North Assembly Pla...
Opel to Close Antwerp, Workers Agree
27 Apr 2010, 10:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After more than a year of battling for the future of Opel's Antwerp facility, the employees found themselves caught between the proverbial rock and very hard place and had no choice but to agre...
GM Turns Workers into Test Drivers
4 Feb 2010, 10:52 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / General Motors understood how important the employees’ enthusiasm is, so the automaker decided to launch a program which gives the workers at its Renaissance Center headquarters the chance to ...
Sweden to Help Saab's Abandoned Workers
22 Dec 2009, 09:19 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even though the Swedish government repeatedly said it does not intend to get involved in the Saab business and keep the company alive by providing the necessary funding, it appears the local officia...
Russia Seals Fate of 21,000 AvtoVAZ Workers?
28 Oct 2009, 10:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The already announced plan Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ has to kill some nearly a quarter of its workforce in the following years seems to have been given the green light from the Russian government, wi...
Opel Zaragoza Workers Go on Strike
20 Oct 2009, 13:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As hinted earlier today, Opel workers from the Zaragoza plant in Spain decided to go on strike as a mean of expressing their disapproval of Magna's plan for the facility, its workers and the ca...
Opel Spanish Workers Threaten to Strike
20 Oct 2009, 08:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Opel-Magna deal still hangs in the balance this week, with problems intensifying in Spain, one of the few regions were Magna did not manage to get the support of the local Opel workers. Today, t...
Opel Workers Demand Magna to Keep Plants Open for Two Years
28 Sep 2009, 15:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Negotiations on the job cuts to be applied by Magna International continue, this time with another proposal coming from Opel's employees who are seeking to demand the Canadian - Austrian partsm...
GM Can't Afford to Keep Opel
25 Aug 2009, 14:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Recent reports claiming American manufacturer GM has had a change of heart and is now trying to raise money to keep Opel have stirred both controversy and anger in Germany. With Opel's fate mor...
Opel Workers Want Vacation Bonuses Back, First Warning Shot
25 Aug 2009, 08:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As promised yesterday by labor chief Klaus Franz, Opel workers have begun the guerilla warfare against the American manufacturer. Their first move was to announce they are want, all 25,000 of them, ...
SsangYong Strikers Agree to End Protests
6 Aug 2009, 14:14 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After almost two months during which police troops and SsangYong workers had several violent clashes, the strikers who occupied the Pyeongtaek plant finally agreed to leave it voluntarily. SsangYong...
New Fabris Workers Threaten to Blow Up Plant
13 Jul 2009, 12:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Workers from French car part factory New Fabris, over 90 percent employed by Renault and PSA Peugeot Citroen, have resorted for a not very often seen type of protest in order to determine the two au...
Chrysler's Official Plant Closure Schedule
6 May 2009, 08:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The bankrupt American manufacturer posted today its official reply to the growing rumors regarding plant closures. The official statement of the manufacturer confirms the fact that six of its plants...