Nov 07 Judge confirms Detroit’s plan to exit largest municipal bankruptcy By Ruth Tam U.S. judge Steven Rhodes confirmed a plan Friday that will cut over $7 billion in unsecured liabilities and pump $1.4 billion into the Motor City for basic rehabilitation over the next decade. Continue reading
Sep 12 Watch Automakers recall 14 million cars for exploding airbags By PBS News Hour Airbags are a major defense for car passengers in an accident. But airbags supplied by the Takata Corporation to several automakers have been found to rupture or explode after a front crash, causing serious injuries and two deaths. Recalls related… Continue watching
Jun 04 Can Americans compete with quality-driven Germans? By Paul Solman Werner Eikenbusch, BMW’s head of workforce development for the Americas, left high school in the 10th grade for an apprenticeship program that combined on-the-job training with vocational school. He eventually returned to school to become an engineer, and at BMW’s… Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch Disavowing GM decisions of the past, CEO Barra offers apology and further investigation By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 01 Congress demands answers on delay in GM recall By Tom Krisher, Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press At a hearing Tuesday, members of a House subcommittee demanded answers from new GM CEO Mary Barra about why the automaker used the switch in small cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion even though it knew the… Continue reading
Mar 10 Watch Safety advocates question delay in recall by General Motors By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch What do unions offer American workers today? By PBS News Hour Jeffrey Brown gets debate from Linda Chavez of the Center for Equal Opportunity and Kate Bronfenbrenner of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University on the significance of Volkswagen auto workers in Tennessee rejecting UAW membership and… Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch What does the VW union failure mean for the future of U.S. organized labor? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch Union suffers significant loss in Tennessee By PBS News Hour Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted to reject what would have been United Auto Workers’ first successful organization of workers at a foreign automaker in the South. Jim Efstathiou of Bloomberg News speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the… Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch General Motors names company insider Mary Barra as first female CEO General Motors names company insider Mary Barra as first female CEO… Continue watching