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Your Best Stuff: Your Reaction: GM closes plant in Oshawa
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I. With no end in sight for elevated gas prices, G.M. announced drastic cuts in production of sport utility vehicles and pickups on Tuesday and stepped up plans for smaller cars and engines. (article 4)
G.M.'s chairman and chief executive, Rick Wagoner, said G.M. will cease production at four North American assembly plants that make S.U.V.'s and pickups by 2010. (article 4)
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) General Motors is closing four truck and SUV plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico as surging fuel prices hasten a dramatic shift to smaller vehicles. (article 1)
CEO Rick Wagoner said Tuesday before the automaker's annual meeting in Delaware the plants to be closed are in Oshawa, Ontario; Moraine, Ohio; Janesville, Wis.; and Toluca, Mexico. (article 1)
The General Motors Corp. plant in this Dayton suburb is a forest of smokestacks that form the nerve center of this industrial community built along the banks of the Great Miami River. (article 10)
WILMINGTON, Del. - General Motors shareholders blasted the company's chief executive for raking in huge salaries and bonuses while the automaker has struggled financially, but a proposal to give investors a say on executive pay was soundly defeated on Tuesday. (article 6)
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- ABC News: GM Closing 4 Plants, Might Axe Hummer (ABCNews, 06/03/2008, 304 words)
- GM to close 4 plants, focus on small cars (sfgate.com, 06/05/2008, 1252 words)
- Arlington not on list of GM plant closures (dallasnews.com, 06/03/2008, 1384 words)
- G.M. Shifts Focus to Small Cars in Sign of Sport Utility Demise (nytimes.com, 06/04/2008, 733 words)
- News for Dallas, Texas (dallasnews.com, 06/04/2008, 189 words)
- Shareholders blast pay of GM chief executive (dallasnews.com, 06/03/2008, 650 words)
- Hargrove optimistic GM will reverse closure in meeting; workers not so sure (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 1322 words)
- Battle between CAW and GM hinges on right to change plans on market conditions (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 725 words)
- Your Best Stuff: Your Reaction: GM closes plant in Oshawa (cbc.ca, 06/05/2008, 207 words)
- ABC News: GM Closures Hit Plant Towns Hard (ABCNews, 06/03/2008, 365 words)
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