Update 2: GM Europe Pledges to Avoid Job Cuts
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General Motors Corp. has pledged to avoid plant closures and 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 Corp. , 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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General Motors Corp. GM.N, the  world's biggest automaker, will keep shrinking its U.S. work  force this year, offering buyout packages to more salaried  employees to offset rising costs, executives said on Monday.
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General Motors&#39; Adam Opel AG unit said Tuesday it had agreed with employee delegates to try to ensure the survival of its main plants in Germany beyond 2010, while finding &quot;socially acceptable&quot; ways of cutting back their work force
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General Motors Corp., the world&#39;s biggest carmaker, will cut as many as 12,000 jobs in Europe, almost a fifth of its workforce, after $3 billion in losses in the region in the past four years.
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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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US car giant General Motors says it is to shed 12,000 jobs in Europe, with Germany bearing the brunt of the losses.
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General Motors today announced that it is to axe up to 12,000 jobs in Europe over the next two years in a bid to reduce its annual costs by â¬500m (Â£340m).
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General Motors Europe will chop 12,000 jobs over two years -- around a fifth of its workforce -- to lop 500 million euros ($673 million
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US car giant General Motors says it is to shed 12,000 jobs in Europe, with Germany bearing the brunt of losses.
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Swedish carmaker Saab reduced its  annual sales targets as the General Motors  unit tries to  reach break-even, the head of GM Europe said in an advance  abstract of a report in Automotive News Europe on Saturday.
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General Motors Europe is to slash its workforce by around a fifth, cutting as many as 12,000 jobs in a bid to halt chronic losses in the region.
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General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , 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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General Motors Europe announced yesterday that it will cut 12,000 jobs on the continent by the end of 2006 in a plan aimed at saving US$617 million per year.
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GERMANY - European factories of General Motors Inc. launched a massive strike protesting against the planned major job cuts. The automaker has recently released its plans to reduce the number of jobs by 12
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BOCHUM, Germany  - 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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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.