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18,657 GM Hourly Workers Accept Buyouts
More than 18,000 of GM’s U.S. hourly workers or about a quarter of its American blue-collar work force have accepted the automaker’s buyout packages, the company announced today. Most of the employees are expected to be gone by July 1, 2008. Although GM won’t replace all of the workers who opted for the buyouts, it’s expected that the automaker will replace an unidentified number of highly paid veterans with lower-wage workers.
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Ford Sacks Over 200 Workers At Australian Plant, Despite Receiving Financial Aid…
The axe fell for 212 long-term employees at Ford's Australian operations in the state of Victoria on Friday, November 16, after six months of negotiations over redundancies. In July, Ford had said that it would make 440 workers redundant at its...
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Toyota Brings In Security Guards To Personally Escort Sacked Workers In Australia
More than 200 workers Toyota workers at the firm's Altona plant in Melbourne, Australia, were in for a nasty surprise on Monday as the company went ahead with its original plan to axe 350 employees. The remaining workers will be sacked on Tuesday....
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Bmw Copes With Aging Workforce By Making Simple Changes On Assembly Line
For about $50,000, BMW may have begun solving a problem that will be plaguing many automakers: an aging work force. It's not just automakers that will be facing this problem, however, as populations worldwide are getting older; by 2020, the number...
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Volvo Completes Union Talks, 4,616 Job Cuts Worldwide
Ford's Volvo Cars unit which is being prepared for sale by the American automaker, has completed talks with its union representatives. Altogether, 2,721 employees in Sweden will leave the company of which, 2,367 are blue collar workers and 354 white...
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Ford Wants To Get Rid Of Another 4,200 Workers In N.a.
It seems like Ford has an excess of 4,200 hourly workers in its North American plants, or at least that’s what the company’s executives told the leaders of the United Auto Workers in a private meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. According...
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