General Motors

2008

How to Save Motor City

Marissa Colón-Margolies : United Auto Workers (UAW)

Letting Detroit fail: catastrophic. Transforming it into a lean green machine-maker: visionary.
Why We Shouldn't Save GM

Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy

The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.
Cashing Out Detroit

Nicholas von Hoffman : U.S. Economy

Saving jobs by giving automakers large amounts of cash is a very expensive form of trickle-down. What we need is a clear plan about how automakers will use the money.

Strike! A Defining Moment for the UAW

Max Fraser : United Auto Workers (UAW)

The issues at stake, especially GM's drive to shift the burden of healthcare, will affect workers throughout the industrialized economy--to say nothing of Campaign '08.

Road to Perdition

Morton Mintz : History

A nearly forgotten criminal conspiracy by GM, Firestone and Chevron shut down the nation's municipal railways, replacing them with gas-guzzling bus lines, paving the way for global warming and for our energy crisis.
Elegy for GM--and Ourselves

Nicholas von Hoffman

When General Motors goes down, it will take us all down with it.

Spring Hill: Another Utopia Bites the Dust

Nicholas von Hoffman : Unions

General Motors is dimming the headlights on its industrial utopia in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The cutback at the visionary Saturn plant, where workers and managers once shared decision-making and cooperated as equals, is the latest affront to US autoworkers and American self-esteem.
G.M. Stumps the Senators

John Keats : U.S. Economy

With assembly plant shut-downs and a massive layoff of 5,000 workers, GM has seen better days. Those include the 1950s, when GM was in trouble with the Senate for being too powerful, and accused of artificially raising prices and creating a monopoly in Detroit.