Even as Detroit's Big Three teeter on the edge of collapse, United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said Saturday the problem is not the union's contract with the automakers and that getting the companies back on their feet means finding a way to turn around the economy. ...more

November 16, 2008

Democratic leaders in Congress asked the Bush administration Saturday to provide more aid to the struggling auto industry, which is bleeding cash and jobs. ...more

November 9, 2008

Amid economic turmoil and a fast-approaching date with Election Day, some 500 members representing organized labor in Florida will fan out through Lakeland on Saturday. Their goal: Flip a traditional Republican hotbed on the pivotal Interstate 4 corridor by invading neighborhoods with odes of praise to the most pro-union major party presidential candidate in 40 years. ...more

October 17, 2008

General Motors Corp.'s efforts to hoard cash and outlast a prolonged economic slump claimed the jobs of more than 2,700 workers Monday as the automaker announced the demise of factories in Michigan and Wisconsin. ...more

October 15, 2008

General Motors Corp.'s treasurer said Wednesday that the automaker is planning to put its Strasbourg, France, manufacturing operation and its Hummer truck brand up for sale and may announce more asset sales later this year. ...more

September 25, 2008

Auto parts manufacturer Lear Corp. plans to relocate much of the work now being done at its Tampa manufacturing plant to Mexico and China, according to the president of the local United Auto Workers chapter. ...more

September 12, 2008

At the end of the interview, it was time to get their pictures taken. ...more

August 22, 2008

If Volkswagen AG decides to build its U.S. assembly plant in the South, the German company will join other foreign automakers that are increasingly turning the region into a hotbed of car manufacturing. ...more

July 9, 2008

General Motors Corp. will furlough entire shifts of workers at some truck factories and may move them to nearby car plants as it restructures to adjust to a rapidly changing U.S. market brought on by $4 a gallon gasoline. ...more

May 30, 2008

Members of a United Auto Workers union local went on strike Monday at General Motors' Fairfax facility - hitting a plant that churns out GM's popular Malibu sedan. ...more

May 6, 2008