By TOM KRISHER
Honda is admitting that it failed to report more than 1,700 injury and death claims about its vehicles to U.S. safety regulators, a violation of federal law.
Candice Anderson cleared in fatal car wreck after GM letter
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
A Texas judge cleared a woman Monday for a car accident that killed her fiance in 2004, after General Motors acknowledged that her car would have been among millions being recalled for a problem that may have contributed to the death.
Steve Kiefer, GM’s savvy new face to suppliers
Addressing an industry conference in Traverse City, Mich., this summer, General Motors’ global powertrain boss Steve Kiefer asked a room packed with about 500 people how many owned a GM vehicle.
About a dozen hands went up.
VW policy for US plant sets off labor scramble
By ERIK SCHELZIG
A new labor policy at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory is encouraging both supporters and opponents of a major labor union to unionize its first foreign auto plant in the U.S. South.
The new policy, known as “Community Organization Engagement,” establishes formal rules for labor groups at the plant for the first time. What the effects will be is still up for debate.
Opel unions upset over output plans for Karl, Corsa, report says
General Motors’ Opel unit faces labor unrest in Germany over future output of the Corsa subcompact and the Karl minicar, a German business magazine reported.
Opel unions are angry that the Karl and its Vauxhall-badged sibling, the Viva, will be made at a GM plant in Korea that is being stretched beyond its capacity rather than at an underutilized German plant Bilanz reported.
