GM was founded in Flint in 1908 and thrived there for decades, employing about 75,000 people in the area during the 1970s. The No. 1 automaker has cut more than half of those jobs since the 1970s and today employs about 35,000 people at 18 plants and offices in the Flint area. Th...
"The temporary people, making them permanent, that's a cause that's near and dear to me because I did it for eight years," Yakim said. "Nobody at my local level, or even nationally, stood up." Yakim raised a family while working at GM, even though he was a "weekend parent" for...
GM employed 80,000 workers in the Flint area in the late 1970s, but tens of thousands of the jobs have since been sent overseas, contracted out to other companies or simply eliminated. The city’s plight gained notoriety after Michael Moore’s 1989 film “Roger & Me,” which shows Moore...
Strike talks continue in Flint as two key events on GM-UAW calendar nearBRIAN S. AKRE AP Auto Writer