General Motors, the fourth largest automaker in the world, announced a progressive plan Thursday to become a carbon neutral company by 2040, aiming to cut off sales of most new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
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Seeking points with the incoming Biden administration, General Motors announced Monday it was “committed to an all-electric future” and will abandon President Donald Trump’s effort to erase California’s longstanding ability to strictly regulate tailpipe emissions.
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General Motors announced Monday that the federal government has ordered it to recall and repair millions of pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators, which have been the subject of numerous lawsuits and recall efforts over the past decade.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed a consumer class action claiming General Motors’ Flex Fuel vehicles, supposedly designed to operate on E85 ethanol fuel, must be periodically filled with gasoline to prevent engine damage. The consumer did not give GM adequate opportunity to address the problem before filing suit.
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President Donald Trump on Friday used the decades-old Defense Production Act to order General Motors to begin mass production of ventilators needed at hospitals across the U.S. to treat patients infected with the novel coronavirus.
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General Motors brought a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Fiat Chrysler, claiming the rival automaker bribed officials with the United Auto Workers union to get an unfair advantage in labor agreements.
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General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and many others in the auto industry are siding with the Trump administration in a lawsuit over whether California has the right to set its own greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards.
Read moreFactory employees represented by the United Auto Workers held a national vote Friday approving a new labor contract with General Motors to end a strike that lasted nearly six weeks.
Read moreThe United Auto Workers and General Motors on Wednesday reached a tentative four-year labor agreement to end the longest automaker strike since 1970 and the first in 12 years.
Read moreContract talks aimed at ending a 21-day strike by the United Auto Workers against General Motors have taken a turn for the worse, hitting a big snag over product commitments for U.S. factories, a union official wrote in an email to members.
Read moreThe United Auto Workers’ strike against General Motors has stretched into its third week with no end in sight, as some workers who applied for a union-sponsored supplemental weekly payment of $250 received their first check Tuesday.
Read moreGeneral Motors has breached a labor contract by continuing to employ temporary workers at its Indiana auto factory instead of laid-off unionized workers from an Ohio plant, their labor union claims in court.
Read moreBurnishing a largely unbroken record over an ignition-switch defect that led to the recall of millions of cars, General Motors ended 2017 with two more court wins.
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Having already paid $900 million to settle U.S. claims over its installation of faulty ignition switches, General Motors inked a $120 million deal Thursday with 49 states and the District of Columbia.
Read moreBurnishing a largely unbroken record at trial, General Motors swatted away another ignition-switch liabilities lawsuit on Wednesday, as a federal jury rejected the case of an Arizona fender-bender.
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