Poornima Gupta and Gilles Castonguay, Reuters June 10, 2009. DETROIT/MILAN (Reuters) - Fiat SpA closed its acquisition of Chrysler's strongest assets on Wednesday, a key step in the Italian carmaker's ambitious plan to create a global player to ride out the worldwide auto sales downturn.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. June 1, 2009. The President -- and the United Auto Workers -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.
Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes. May 18, 2009. Why not retain workers who know how to manufacture complex machines and make use of exhausted auto factories, rather than letting them crumble?
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. December 17, 2008. I still underestimate the peculiar genius conservative Republicans show in exploiting dire, even tragic, situations to wield a partisan cudgel.
Nomi Prins, AlterNet. December 9, 2008. Whether or not bailing out the Big Three makes financial sense (which it doesn't), it's still a fraction of the cost of bailing out Wall Street.
Jane Slaughter, Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. December 8, 2008. Some conservatives are using inaccurate numbers to pin the blame for Detroit's pain on union workers.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. December 6, 2008. Bush says he is concerned that the automakers will not survive, but he is totally unwilling to take any action.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2008. If they had flown first-class it would have been embarrassing. But company-owned private jets?
Eve Tahmincioglu, Huffington Post. November 6, 2007. The threat of offshoring and declining membership has left the big industrial unions more conciliatory than ever.
