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AUTOMAKERS' NEWS * USA
* GM recalls Outlooks, Acadias for air bag fix
Detroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News -Feb 24, 2007: -- General Motors Corp. is recalling almost all of its new 2007 Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia sport-utility vehicles because front air bags may fail to deploy in a crash. The recall includes 13,032 of the SUVs built from August to this month, the automaker told the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
* GM temporarily idles two Michigan plants
Detroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News -Feb 24, 2007: -- General Motors Corp. will temporarily shut down assembly lines at two Michigan plants Feb. 26 as part of planned production cuts. The Orion plant, which makes the Pontiac G6 sedan, will be idled for three weeks and the Lansing Grand River plant that makes the Cadillac CTS and STS sedans, and SRX crossover sport- utility vehicle, will be closed for one week, GM spokesman Tom Wickham said Friday...
Detroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News -Feb 24, 2007: -- General Motors Corp. will temporarily shut down assembly lines at two Michigan plants Feb. 26 as part of planned production cuts. The Orion plant, which makes the Pontiac G6 sedan, will be idled for three weeks and the Lansing Grand River plant that makes the Cadillac CTS and STS sedans, and SRX crossover sport- utility vehicle, will be closed for one week, GM spokesman Tom Wickham said Friday...
* UAW approves plant rules at 37 facilities
Detroit,Mich,USA -The Detroit News -Feb 24, 2007: -- Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler union members at 37 U.S. plants have approved new agreements that require more flexible hours and fewer workers as they try to keep factories from closing amid slipping car and trucks sales... Ford, Chrysler and General Motors Corp. have national contracts with the UAW that expire Sept. 14. The drive for improving factory operations is happening separately from those negotiations as the automakers press their case at individual plants...
* Ford warns of difficult transition as thousands of workers leave
Dearborn,Mich,USA -The Detroit News (Detroit,Mich), by Bryce G. Hoffman -Feb 23, 2007: -- Ford Motor Co. is warning its managers that the next several months will be difficult as the company figures out how to cope with about a third fewer workers in the United States... Ford is completing white-collar buyouts aimed at eliminating approximately 10,000 salaried positions by 2008...
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