Update 7: German GM Plant Workers End Walkout
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Workers at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany decided Wednesday to end their nearly weeklong walkout in protest at thousands of threatened job cuts, a union official said, ending a strike that has forced other factories to a halt.
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FRANKFURT, Germany  - General Motors Corp.'s German division announced a deal Thursday that will allow the struggling automaker to cut thousands of jobs while avoiding forced layoffs and offering large incentives for employees to leave.
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BOCHUM, Germany - Thousands of employees at General Motors Corp.&#39;s European factories staged protests yesterday against the automaker&#39;s plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Workers at Volkswagen AG's   VOWG.DE biggest Brazilian plant ended a strike on Monday   after the German company agreed to reevaluate plans to cut   1,800 jobs, officials from the labor union at the factory and   the automaker told Reuters.
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FRANKFURT  - Around 15,000 workers at German car giant Volkswagen walked off the job in warning strikes aimed at turning up the pressure on management in deadlocked wage talks.
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The world&#39;s largest automaker launched negotiations with European employees after it unveiled the cost-cutting plans in October, triggering days of walkouts at GM&#39;s German plants.
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Workers at an Adam Opel AG plant in Germany whose stoppage in protest at threatened job cuts has forced two other factories to a halt planned to decide Wednesday whether to end their walkout.
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Employees at an Opel plant in western Germany abandoned work again early Friday after parent company General Motors announced a plan to shed 12,000 jobs across Europe, a union spokesman said.
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BOCHUM, Germany The General Motors plant here resumed production on Wednesday after workers voted to end a six-day walkout sparked by the threat of thousands of job cuts.
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Employees at General Motors&#39; Opel plant in Bochum, Germany, refused to resume work yesterday, extending a stoppage that began last Thursday in protest at the carmaker&#39;s plan to cut jobs, a union official said.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Workers at the Bochum factory of German car maker Opel voted to return to work after paraylsing assembly lines for six days in protest at plans by Opel&#39;s US parent, General Motors, to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe.
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- Production resumed Monday at a General Motors plant in Ruesselsheim that was idled by a lack of parts after workers at another factory staged a six-day walkout protesting threatened job cuts.
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United Auto Workers union- represented workers at plants in Michigan and Ohio began walking off the job and organizing pickets as a strike against General Motors Corp began on Monday.
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A two-week strike by some 50,000 workers that had halted output at Volkswagen AG , DaimlerChrysler  and other car makers in South Africa ended late on Tuesday, a union official said on Wednesday.
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Germany is to bear the brunt of General Motors&#39; decision to axe about a fifth of its 62,000 European workers, although the US carmaker yesterday said it would stop short of factory closures.
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General Motors Corp.'s European unit Thursday announced a deal that will allow the struggling automaker to cut up to 12,000 jobs &#151; most of them in Germany, where it will offer generous incentives for employees to leave.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Thousands of employees at General Motors Corp.'s European factories staged protests Tuesday against the automaker's plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other factories to stop production.