Workers walk out as GM seeks job cuts in Europe
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Blaming high labor costs and weak demand for cars, General Motors Europe said Thursday it plans to shed 12,000 jobs - almost 20 percent of its work force - in order to halt chronic losses.
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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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By our reporters. Some 50,000 auto workers took part Tuesday in protests against plans to cut 12,000 jobs at General Motorsâ European subsidiaries.
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Thousands of employees at General Motorsâ European plants staged protests today against the 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.
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Tens of thousands of General Motors workers across Europe were set to stop working on Tuesday in a sign of solidarity with their German colleagues, who face massive job cuts.
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General Motors Corp. offered German workers generous buyouts Thursday to pave the way for up to 12,000 job cuts in Europe, where the world&#39;s largest automaker is struggling to end years of losses amid fierce competition and weak demand.
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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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GM auto workers walk out after deadline passes with no deal.
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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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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.
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Roughly 5,600 German employees of General Motors Corp. have agreed to accept buyouts offered as part of the world's biggest automaker's efforts to slash jobs in Europe, a labor official said Friday.
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Workers at the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany enter their sixth day of &quot;wildcat&quot; strike action in response to planned job cuts by US parent company General Motors (GM).
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Wildcat strikes have broken out at General Motors plants in Germany in the wake of the companyÂs announcement that it will cut 12,000 jobs in Europe and could close an assembly plant.
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A strike at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany began to squeeze the company's European production yesterday as a lack of parts halted two other factories, while thousands of workers rallied against GM's plan to cut up to 12,000 jobs across the continent.
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RUESSELSHEIM, Germany - General Motors Europe announced Thursday that it will cut 12,000 jobs on the continent by the end of 2006 in a plan aimed at saving $617 million per year.    The company said that 90 percent of the cuts would be made in 2005 and that the plan "provides for the majority of the cuts to be in Germany, with a heavy emphasis on managing and engineering."   However, it said negotiations with employee representatives would determine which of its 10 European manufacturing plants are affected...
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General Motors Corp., the world's biggest automaker. has pledged to avoid plant closures and layoffs in Europe as it seeks to return its European operations to profitability, worker representatives said Wednesday.
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US car giant General Motors says it is to shed 12,000 jobs in Europe, with Germany worst hit.