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For all the good in GM's 2007 results -- the near-record worldwide sales, the reduction in labor costs and in retiree health obligations -- there is no getting around the $38.7 billion in red ink.

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Workers mull GM's latest offer to leave FLINT Wednesday, February 13, 2008 By Ron Fonger rfonger@flintjournal.com 810.766.6317 FLINT - It didn't take long before those sweetened General Motors buyouts announced ...

Baltimore Sun - GM spokesman Dan Flores said all UAW members in Baltimore , including the 354 hourly workers at the Allison Transmission plant in White Marsh , will be eligible."The specific details will be rolled out to employees in the coming weeks," Flores told The ...

General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union have reached an agreement on a comprehensive special attrition program that will be offered to all of GM's 74,000 UAW-represented employees.

It was called Buffett's Bail-out. After Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway offered to re-insure $800 billion in bonds backed by several insurers, equity prices were bursting with confidence.

Kaisernetwork.org - The contract also establishes a voluntary employees' beneficiary association managed by UAW that will reduce retiree health benefit liabilities for GM by about $47 billion ( Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report , 1/18). All of GM's unionized employees ...

The worlds number one auto maker, General Motors, reached an important agreement with the United Auto Workers.

General Motors Corp., eager to lower wages and stop the kinds of losses it saw in 2007, said Tuesday it is offering a new round of buyouts to all 74,000 of its U.S. hourly workers represented by the United Auto ...

News that General Motors Corp. is offering buyouts or early retirements to all 74,000 U.S. hourly workers represented by the United Autoworkers has sparked anxiety among GM Canada autoworkers concerned about ...

Detroit News - It'll be after the next slug of high-priced auto workers are gone -- some 20,000 more, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger predicted on WJR -- many of them replaced by folks earning a lot less. More dealers likely will be either sweated out of their ...

Some give GM buyout offers cool reception By Julia Bauer WYOMING -- After longtime workers at General Motors Corp.'s 36th Street SW stamping plant saw buyout details Tuesday, the chill of a tough economy and ...

General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes ...

Detroit News - Magna-UAW deal could save 2,700 jobs in N.Y. EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Union officials say a tentative contract between Magna International and the United Auto Workers will save about 2,700 jobs at the New Process Gear plant in suburban Syracuse. But one ...

General Motors is offering a new round of buyouts to 74,000 U.S. hourly workers.

Detroit News - But UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, in an interview Tuesday with Paul W. Smith on WJR Radio, said he thinks GM is targeting less than 20,000 workers. Veteran employees need to go to make way for lesser-paid workers GM can hire as part of last year's ...

Detroit News - UAW Local 276 President Enrique Flores said that some of his Arlington, Texas, members were excited. Flores estimated that as many as 400 of his 2,500 members had three decades of service with the automaker. "Hopefully, it's enough to tip them over ...

A SURPRISINGLY tough fourth quarter and a gloomy outlook for the US market have prompted General Motors to offer redundancies to its entire unionised work force.

Union leaders at the Janesville General Motors plant expect hundreds of local automakers will take the company's buyout offer.