Fewer and fewer GM workers remain in Janesville
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
JANESVILLE -- General Motors, the once dominant employer in Janesville, has whittled its local workforce down to about 575 people through buyouts, retirements and transfers to other plants.
Union concessions big part of $409 million incentive package in failed bid
By JIM LEUTE - Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Concessions by United Auto Workers Local 95 accounted for more than half of the state's $409 million incentive package that failed to convince General Motors to park small car production at its shuttered Janesville plant.
Workers getting by, but benefits will end
By TED SULLIVAN - Monday, Aug. 10, 2009
JANESVILLE -- Collecting unemployment and spending less helps the couple get by, but about 360 Lear and 132 LSI workers laid off in July 2008 could lose their unemployment checks in a couple weeks.
Control of GM site is key to redevelopment
By JIM LEUTE - Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009
JANESVILLE --
When it comes to any redevelopment of the shuttered General Motors property in Janesville, the challenges are enormous and a final decision ultimately will come from Detroit.
Filmmaker to look at life after GM
By STACY VOGEL - Tuesday, July 28, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Reporters from across the country descended on Janesville when General Motors ended production here in December.
Janesville workers take GM buyout
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, July 24, 2009
JANESVILLE --
More than 200 workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Janesville met Thursday’s deadline to take up the automaker on its latest early retirement/buyout program.
Jobs are good for laid-off GM workers, but exodus is bad for city
By JIM LEUTE - Wednesday, July 15, 2009
JANESVILLE -- About 170 laid-off General Motors' workers in the Janesville area could be back on the job as early as Monday in Kansas City, Kan.
$195 million not enough for GM to return to Janesville
By GINA DUWE By MARCIA NELESEN - Wednesday, July 8, 2009
JANESVILLE --
The $195 million package Wisconsin offered to GM wasn't as sweet as the $779 million offered by Michigan, which won the contest to build GM's new small car.
$2.3 million grant to help displaced autoworkers in Rock County
By BETH WHEELOCK - Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The funds are the second installment of a National Emergency Grant.
Retirees flooding dental and vision offices as benefits run out
By STACY VOGEL - Sunday, June 28, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Local dental and vision offices are booked solid as GM retirees rush to get in one last check-up before losing vision and dental benefits July 1.
Janesville area residents react to GM decision
By KATHLEEN FOODY - Friday, June 26, 2009
Many were saddened by the news but said they expected Michigan would become home to the small-car plant.
Officials wait to comment on GM annoucement
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, June 26, 2009JANESVILLE -- State and local officials had few comments Thursday about the reported decision by General Motors to build a small car in Orion, Mich., rather than Janesville.
Janesville area businesses look for support after GM decision
By GAZETTE STAFF - Friday, June 26, 2009JANESVILLE -- Verna Saladino, president of the Rock-Green Realtors Association, said she wished GM reopened the plant.
GM confirms plans to produce small car in Michigan
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Friday, June 26, 2009
JANESVILLE --
The oldest plant in the General Motors Corp. family faces an uncertain future after the automaker decided against bringing new production to the recently shuttered facility.
Janesville GM plant will not get new product
By JIM LEUTE - Thursday, June 25, 2009
JANESVILLE -- Six months after ending sport-utility vehicle production in Janesville, General Motors is poised to deliver what could be the knockout blow to its Janesville assembly plant when it awards production of a new line of small cars to a Michigan plant.
GM moves draw away children, families
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Saturday, June 20, 2009
JANESVILLE --
Twenty-one families responding to a survey by United Auto Workers Local 95 say they plan to leave the area by this fall.
Legislators hope tax credits sway GM
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, June 19, 2009
JANESVILLE -- When the final state budget—a marriage of Senate and Assembly versions—comes up for a vote, Robson said she will vote on two tax breaks to help GM.
Officials give GM ‘personal touch’
By JIM LEUTE - Thursday, June 18, 2009
JANESVILLE -- While protocol called for e-mails, Wisconsin officials believed a personal touch was the best way to present their proposal to General Motors officials Tuesday.
GM stockholders 'wiped out'
By JIM LEUTE - Friday, June 12, 2009
JANESVILLE -- If they’re lucky, current shareholders might get through the bankruptcy with a 1 percent stake in the “new GM,” according to financial analysts.
What can Janesville offer GM?
By FRANK SCHULTZ - Thursday, June 11, 2009
JANESVILLE -- Wisconsin's federal delegation has met with top GM brass to make the case for Janesville as the site for production of the automaker's new small car.
