DaimlerChrysler hopes for U.S. healthcare deal
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DaimlerChrysler (DCXGn.DE) still  hopes to win cost-saving concessions on healthcare from its  unionized U.S. workforce despite resistance from the United  Auto Workers union, its U.S. arm Chrysler said on Friday.
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Private equity firm The Blackstone Group  may bid for the troubled U.S. division of German automaker DaimlerChrysler AG , a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., faced with   accusations it provides inadequate health care for more than a   million U.S. employees, plans to announce a major health care   initiative on Thursday.
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A decade after U.S. automakers supported Hillary Clinton's failed plan to transform the U.S. health-care system, the car companies are taking a more cautious approach even as costs climb at threatening rates.
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A decade after U.S. automakers  supported Hillary Clinton's failed plan to transform the U.S.  health-care system, the car companies are taking a more  cautious approach even as costs climb at threatening rates.
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General Motors Corp. chairman and chief executive G. Richard Wagoner Jr. called on corporate and government leaders to find "some serious medicine" for the nation's ailing health system.
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The generous health benefits paid by automakers will be a crucial sticking point in pivotal union negotiations.
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German-American auto maker DaimlerChrysler AG said Thursday it will invest US$210 million (euro168 million) to update an assembly plant in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.
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At a time when cost-cutting pressures have strained relations between automakers and suppliers, General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said Tuesday that the two sides must cooperate to rein in soaring health-care expenses.
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NEW YORK/DETROIT  - General Motors Corp. is in preliminary talks to buy Chrysler, the struggling U.S. arm of DaimlerChrysler AG, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.
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The choice may signal the unionâs willingness to bargain on a health care trust as the current contract with automakers is set to expire Friday night.
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General Motors Corp  in its  contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union has  proposed one option that excludes establishing a union-run  healthcare trust but calls for deeper cuts in several areas,  the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones/AP) -- DaimlerChrysler AG said Thursday it plans to spend $210 million to update one of its assembly plants in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.
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U.S. regulators asked automotive giants General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co.  for information on how they account for pension and health care plans, the companies said on Tuesday.
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DaimlerChrysler  may communicate its future strategy for loss-making U.S. arm only in weeks or months, the world's fifth-biggest carmaker said on Thursday.
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DaimlerChrysler AG's   U.S. head of product development said on Wednesday that the German-American carmaker's Detroit and Stuttgart-based units plan to share more components and platforms -- and one day could be building their vehicles in common plants.
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DaimlerChrysler   shareholder DWS has called on the carmaker's management to consider a spin-off of the firm's ailing U.S. Chrysler unit as an option as it gets ready to unveil its latest restructuring plan for Chrysler, a German newspaper reported.