Nearly 50,000 General Motors went on strike last Sunday, beginning the largest labor action against the automaker in more than a decade. Tensions between the automaker and the union began in 2018, when General Motors “unallocated” four plants in the Americ…
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Month: September 2019
The UAW failed to organise Tesla and VW in the US and is now running a baffling strike against GM
In the face of a good offer from General Motors, the United Auto Workers’ 50,000 members still went on strike last week. It’s the first GM strike since 2007 and the first major action against an automaker since 1982. The…
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Tesla board must face trial over Musk’s mega-pay package: Delaware judge
A Delaware judge ruled on Friday that Tesla Inc’s board of directors must defend at a trial Chief Executive Elon Musk’s multibillion dollar pay package, which a shareholder lawsuit said unjustly enriched the head of the electric vehicle company. Tesla estima…
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Will Arcimoto charge up the electric vehicle market? – The Register-Guard
After 12 years, the Eugene-based company began delivering its electric “fun utility vehicles,” but the company is entering a market where some EV companies have a big head start. A Eugene entrepreneur has made a 12-year bet that his contribution to the globa…
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Amazon’s Sweeping Climate Plan Is Full of Gaping Holes
On Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he was committing the worlds largest online retailer to meeting the terms of what he christened The Climate Pledge. Broadly outlined, signing the pledge, which Bezos hopes others will do as well, commits a com…
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