Archive for July 2nd, 2008

This poll ends on the 7th

Contract Poll, FIRST PREVIEW POLL ends on the 7th

  • NO, VOTE IT DOWN (83%, 33 Votes)
  • YES, VOTE IT IN (18%, 7 Votes)
  • DON'T KNOW YET (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 40

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TDU - Teamsters for a Democratic Union

July 2, 2008: Below are key details of the concessions that are in the proposed carhaul contract.

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July 2, 2008

Leaders of carhaul local unions from across the country unanimously endorsed the tentative National Master
Automobile Transporters Agreement on July 2 in Detroit, paving the way for members to vote on the contract later this month.

Updates on the Central-Southern, Eastern and Western supplements are now available for download.

View the Tentative National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement and Supplements

Wednesday July 2, 12:42 pm ET
By Soyoung Kim

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (NYSE:GM - News) will need to raise as much as $15 billion in cash to shore up liquidity and bankruptcy is “not impossible” if the U.S. auto market continues to slump, Merrill Lynch said. Other analysts have suggested GM, whose shares fell to a new 54-year low on Wednesday, needs to raise funds to ride out the downturn in the U.S. auto market through 2009.

But Merrill’s estimate of GM’s financing needs is the highest yet. It also carried the most stark warning of the bankruptcy risk for the largest U.S. automaker.

GM declined to comment directly on the Merrill Lynch report but it believes it has sufficient liquidity for 2008 despite lower volumes and could take more steps to cut costs if sales conditions worsen.

“If conditions continue to deteriorate, we would consider other operating measures,” GM spokeswoman Renee Rashid-Merem told Reuters.

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