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President Trump ought to be in Michigan, Ohio, and Maryland standing with laid off American workers at General Motors (GM) rather than meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House, polling analyst Ryan Girdusky says. 

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will reopen an idled Detroit engine plant, invest billions into five existing Michigan plants, and create about 6,500 U.S. auto jobs in a move reflecting President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda.

American workers with General Motors (GM) held a prayer vigil in protest outside GM’s Warren Transmission Operations Plant — set to close — in Warren, Michigan on Friday as nearly 300 employees are threatened with unemployment. 

The remaining American workers at General Motors (GM) say they are on edge as layoffs of thousands of longtime U.S. employees have somewhat concluded at a number of the automakers’ plants. At the beginning of the month, GM executives began

Multinational corporation General Motors (GM) was blasted for its outsourcing of U.S. and Canadian jobs to Mexico during the 2019 NFL Super Bowl game. 

Multinational corporation General Motors (GM) sought to import nearly 2,800 foreign workers in the last three years to take U.S. jobs while laying off American workers.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is invoking President Trump’s “Hire American, Buy American” platform in its efforts to urge consumers to boycott GM for outsourcing U.S. manufacturing and American jobs to Mexico and China. 

The California Legislature passed a bill before adjourning this week that requires Tesla to start paying workers “fair and responsible” wages to be eligible for up to $520 million of low emissions vehicle-credits.

A pro-labor group reported that Tesla’s non-union factory in Silicon Valley had suffered an 87 percent higher injury rate than the unionized auto industry average in 2014-15.

General Motors is defending their decision to feature two Buick model vehicles made in foreign countries in their Super Bowl ad, after receiving criticism from a member of the United Auto Workers.

In a special report for Reuters titled “Why an emblematic American city has turned to Trump,” Timothy Aeppel writes of the post-industrial travails of the once thriving factory town of Muncie, Indiana, where white working class voters are rallying behind Donald Trump’s populist message – many voting Republican for the first time.

As former employees and retirees reminisced about how a union strike killed their jobs, the last C-17 military transport plane left Boeing’s Long Beach assembly plant, which had employed 35,000 workers a decade ago.

With Colt Defense LLC “enmeshed in a bankruptcy case” and its future–financial and otherwise–in question, the union which represents workers at Colt is seeking a bailout from the Connecticut government