GM and European workers prepare for clash over restructuring plans
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FRANKFURT : General Motors&#39; European restructuring plans are heading for a further rough ride as wildcat strikes to protest the US automaker&#39;s plans to slash 12,000 jobs get set to spread on Tuesday.
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No. 1 automaker&#39;s plan may affect 20% of European work force as it aims to save $500Ma year. FRANKFURT  - General Motors, the world&#39;s largest automaker, is expected to unveil a plan this week to cut
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BOCHUM, Germany Thousands of General Motors employees at its European factories are staging protests to fight what they call &quot;bad management.
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Both General Motors and the United Auto Workers want to be seen as driving hard bargains. But each may be driving itself out of business.
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The heads of Fiat SpA and General Motors  Corp. will meet face to face in a last-ditch attempt to avoid  litigation over whether the Italian group still has the right  to sell its loss-mired carmaking arm to GM.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany took part in protests over US auto giant General Motors&#39; plans to axe 12,000 jobs, about one-fifth of its European workforce.
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Just days after it announced deep job cuts in Europe, the General Motors Corporation is battling a wildcat strike at one of its biggest German auto plants, and a threat of wider disruptions.
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RUESSELSHEIM - General Motors faced massive demonstrations at its sites around Europe on Tuesday with worker representatives reporting a turnout of some 50,000 to protest against the company&#39;s massive job reduction plans.
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About 2,000 workers stayed off the job Friday at a General Motors plant in Germany threatened by job cuts, while the company's European president attempted to reassure employees that the auto giant hadn't fixed how many jobs would go in the country &#151; a prime target in its cost-cutting plan.
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Hundreds of workers at an Opel car plant in Germany kept up a protest outside the factory gates Sunday against plans by owner General Motors Corp.
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General Motors Europe (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will chop 12,000 jobs over two years -- around a fifth of its workforce -- to lop
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General Motors is currently examining the possibility of combining two of its European plants into a single operation.
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General Motors aims to restructure its loss-making European operations without resorting to involuntary redundancies or shuttering any plants, GM employee representatives said on Wednesday.
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US auto giant General Motors got tough with its loss-making European activities, announcing plans to axe one in five jobs in the region over the next two years in a brutal bid to drive the businesses back to profit after six years of losses.
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General Motors Corp. GM.N, in the  midst of reassessing its unprofitable European operations, is  not ruling out closing a plant there and is likely to cut some  jobs, a GM spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Thousands of embittered car workers rallied across Europe against mass job cuts planned by General Motors, the world's biggest automaker, as labor unrest disrupted output at more GM plants Tuesday.
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European plane maker Airbus is to finally unveil its restructuring plan on Wednesday amid signs of growing frustration in its workforce and clamour for resistance from trade unions.