The United Auto Workers international executive board has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said Tuesday in a news release that Obama has given the country a positive vision for a better America and concrete plans to achieve it.
Gettelfinger notes the Illinois senator has pledged to rebuild the country’s manufacturing base and [...]

Barack Obama is picking up a major labor endorsement. The United Auto Workers international executive board tossed its support to the presumptive Democratic candidate.
Union President Ron Gettelfinger said in a news release that Obama has given the country a positive vision for a better America and concrete plans to achieve it, including a pledge to [...]

The state Department of Transportation is balking at issuing the United Auto Workers union a permit allowing workers to gather this weekend along Route 2 in front of Foxwoods to protest the grand opening of the new MGM Grand.
The union, which won an election last fall to represent table game dealers at Foxwoods, applied for [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales “dropped sharply” in recent months and may fall 7 percent this year, while higher costs from tougher environmental regulations may pose a long-term challenge, Standard %26amp; Poor’s said in a report on Tuesday.
U.S. auto sales may fall to 14.9 million this year from 16.1 [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC expects to post a “big” decline in March U.S. sales compared with a year earlier, reflecting the automaker’s decision to pull back from less profitable deals for car rental agencies, Chrysler sales chief Jim Press said on Wednesday.
Press was speaking to reporters at an event [...]

By David Bailey
DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. automotive shares fell on Thursday, including as much as a 9 percent drop in General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), after Morgan Stanley cut its 2008 U.S. industry sales forecast and said 2009 would be little better.
GM stock fell to its lowest level in [...]

By Kevin Krolicki
DETROIT, March 6 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
said on Thursday Chief Executive Rick Wagoner’s 2008 salary has
been raised 33 percent to $2.2 million, reversing two years of
self-imposed pay cuts taken to support the automaker’s
turnaround effort.
GM also said Fritz Henderson, the company’s No. [...]

By Kevin Krolicki
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday two more assembly plants were running out of parts and would have to be idled as the impact from a week-long strike against supplier American Axle %26amp; Manufacturing (AXL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) widened for the No. [...]

By Kevin Krolicki
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Monday it would eliminate shifts at four U.S. plants and lay off some 2,500 workers — or almost 5 percent of its remaining work force — as part of an effort to cut costs and return to profitability next year.
The layoffs [...]

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CHICAGO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Canadian Auto Workers
called a strike on Thursday at a TRW Automotive Holdings Corp
(TRW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plant that supplies parts for Chrysler minivans, the
second walkout by union workers at a North American parts maker
this week.
Chrysler said production [...]