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The General Motors Chapter 11 filing formally was entitled "In re General Motors Corp.", and was case number 09-50026 in the Southern District, Manhattan, New York. [46] General Motors was represented by the New York specialist law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
June 19, 2009: Deadline for filing all objections to the sale of General Motors. June 22, 2009: Deadline for making competing bids in the auction of General Motors' assets. June 25, 2009: Final hearing on the bankruptcy loan. July 10, 2009: Deadline for completion of the sale, requested by the U.S. Treasury and General Motors. [9] [10]
GM will begin to run ads for its new "May the Best Car Win" program. Buyers can take a new GM car off the lot and drive it for up to 60 days. If they don't like it, they can return the car without ...
On the June 1, 2009, General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to successfully negotiate deals with bond holders. On the day the application was made, General Motors was largely a nationalized institution (the U.S. government owning 60% and the Canadian 12.5%), the remaining private stakes mainly being owned by employees.
General Motors disputed its conclusion, and stood by their original figure of 13 deaths after the report was released as of June 3, 2014. [18] By the end of September, Reuters stated in an article that 153 deaths were linked to the faulty ignition switch. [ 19 ]
The contract between the UAW and General Motors expired September 14, and the strike began at 11:59 p.m. on September 15, 2019. A two-day difference between contract expiration and the beginning of a strike is unusually short, [4] but likely motivated by the prolonged negotiations between management and the union. The strike involved 48,000 GM ...
Delphi, which was spun off from GM in 1999, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the UAW refused to cut their wages and GM is expected to be liable for a $7 billion shortfall. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] In order to improve profits, the Detroit automakers made agreements with unions to reduce wages while making pension and health care commitments.
The 2007 General Motors Strike was a labor union strike that lasted three days from September 23 to September 25, 2007, organized by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. The UAW were engaged in talks with General Motors (GM) to negotiate a new labor contract but were unable to come to an agreement before the deadline. Consequently, 73,000 ...