General Motors to axe 12,000 jobs in Europe
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Germany will bear the brunt of the approximately 12,000 job losses, but the company will stop short of immediate factory closures, GM sources said.
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RUESSELSHEIM - US automotive giant General Motors aims to slash 9,500 jobs at its German subsidiary Opel, but payroll cuts will come without compulsory redundancies, Opel&#39;s top workers representative said on Thursday.
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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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General Motors Corp. said Thursday it will slash 12,000 jobs from its money-losing European operations -- nearly one in five of its jobs there -- by the end of 2006 in order to save $617 million per year.
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General Motors  expects its sales in central and eastern Europe to jump to 505,000 units this year from 350,000 in 2006, GM Europe sales chief Jonathan Browning said on Tuesday.
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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., the world&#39;s biggest carmaker, faced wider production cutbacks in Europe as a six-day protest against job-cut plans spread and a shortage of parts from Germany halted work at a Belgian car plant.
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General Motors Corp.&#39;s European factories are expected to resume scheduled production Thursday after workers at a German factory ended a wildcat strike to protest planned job cuts.
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A strike at a General Motors plant in Germany began to squeeze the company&#39;s European production Tuesday as a lack of parts halted two other factories, while thousands of
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General Motors will cut around 10,000  jobs in Europe in a drive to save some 500 million euros  ($613.4 million) a year and return its loss-making operations  there to profit, a company source said on Wednesday.
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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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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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More than 40,000 people took to the streets in Europe to protest against plans by US auto giant General Motors to axe about one-fifth of its workforce in the region and possibly even close a plant.
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General Motors Corp., the world's biggest automaker, has pledged to avoid plant closures and forced layoffs in Europe as it seeks to return its money-losing European operations to profitability, worker representatives said Wednesday.
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General Motors (GM) is following through with plans to axe 12,000 jobs in the loss-making European division as the car giant bids to trim operating costs by Â£350 million-a-year.
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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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US auto giant General Motors has decided to shut down one of its two mid-size car-making plants in Europe next year, a decision that could force its subsidiary Saab to close operations in Sweden and slash 6,300 jobs, the Swedish metalworkers' union said.