GM Europe Aims to Avoid Forced Layoffs
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General Motors aims to restructure its loss-making European operations without resorting to involuntary redundancies or shuttering any
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General Motors Corp.'s European unit Thursday announced a deal that will allow the struggling automaker to cut up to 12,000 jobs &#151; most of them in Germany, where it will offer generous incentives for employees to leave.
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RUESSELSHEIM - General Motors faced massive demonstrations at its sites around Europe on Tuesday with worker representatives reporting a turnout of some 50,000 to protest against the company&#39;s massive job reduction plans.
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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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FRANKFURT : General Motors&#39; European restructuring plans are heading for a further rough ride as wildcat strikes to protest the US automaker&#39;s plans to slash 12,000 jobs get set to spread on Tuesday.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - 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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General Motors Corp. GM.N, 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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A strike at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany began to squeeze the company's European production Tuesday as a lack of parts halted two other factories, while thousands of workers rallied against GM's plan ...
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General Motors Corp., the world's biggest automaker. has pledged to avoid plant closures and layoffs in Europe as it seeks to return its European operations to profitability, worker representatives said Wednesday.
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General Motors Europe announced Thursday that it plans to cut 12,000 jobs on the continent by the end of 2006 in a plan aimed at saving &#36;617 million per year.
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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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A strike at a General Motors Corp. plant in Germany began to squeeze the company's European production yesterday as a lack of parts halted two other factories, while thousands of workers rallied against GM's plan to cut up to 12,000 jobs across the continent.
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Employees at General Motors Corp. in Europe have discussed a major overhaul of the corporate structure in negotiations with management, the chief employee representative said in an interview published Sunday.
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General Motors aims to restructure its loss-making European operations without resorting to involuntary redundancies or shuttering any plants, GM employee representatives said on Wednesday.
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General Motors Europe will slash its workforce by around a fifth, cutting as many as 12,000 jobs in a bid to halt chronic losses in the region, the world's biggest carmaker said on Thursday.
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General Motors GM.N is seriously   considering boosting car exports from Europe, including to its   key U.S. market, to help boost productivity at its European   sites, a senior GM executive said on Thursday.
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Just days after it announced deep job cuts in Europe, the General Motors Corporation is battling a wildcat strike at one of its biggest German auto plants, and a threat of wider disruptions.