American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings News Archives

American Axle Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. , which is traded as AXL on the NYSE, will hold a briefing with institutional investors and security analysts, news media representatives and other interested parties ...

American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. Chairman and CEO Richard Dauch has been awarded an $8.5 million bonus in part for leading the auto parts supplier through a bitter strike.

American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. is considering trimming salaried workers while it moves forward with plant closings, including the Tonawanda Forge Plant in 2009.

It's about halfway through the buyout period at American Axle & Manufacturing Inc., and more than a third of the company's workers are expected to leave the Detroit supplier.

Kevin Donovan, assistant regional director of the United Auto Workers union for two years and a union leader for 34, says that he will retire effective Jan.

This was the end last week of the American Axle & Manufacturing plant on East Delavan Avenue: A public auction of its equipment and furnishings that drew bidders like the two men here.

Shares of American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. tumbled Thursday on worries that the effects of the continued decline in pickup and sport utility demand on the company may be worse than previously ...

General Motors Corp. returned to full production Monday for the first time since a three-month strike at its biggest axle supplier shut or partially idled about 30 North American plants.

General Motors, the largest US automaker, returned to full production for the first time since a three-month strike at its biggest axle supplier shut or partially idled about 30 North American plants.

The General Motors Powertrain Baltimore Transmission Plant, shut down since April because of a strike at a GM parts supplier, will start ramping up production July 14 when it brings back 100 to 105 day-shift workers. The White Marsh plant was one of about 30 GM factories idled by a walkout at American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., resulting in thousands of layoffs. Workers at American Axle approved a contract May 22, ending the nearly three-month strike. About 280 White Marsh workers were laid off during the strike. Another 20 who work on transmissions for GM full-size hybrid SUVs returned to work last week. Second-shift employees will return as demand increases. The plant makes transmissions for GM heavy-duty pickups, a class of vehicles whose sales have been sagging in the face of sharply escalating gas prices. GM is waiting until after a companywide shutdown that normally takes places the first two weeks of July to restart operations at White Marsh and said yesterday that there was no date yet for when the second shift would resume.

All 400 workers temporarily laid off during the recent American Axle strike have been recalled at Delphi Thermal Systems in Lockport, a company spokesman said.

General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner has announced that production at the Moraine Assembly plant will end by 2010.

For 87 grueling days workers struck American Axle and Manufacturing plants in New York and Michigan in defense of living standards and working conditions won in past decades.

The Toyota Camry and Corolla sedans each outsold the traditionally top-selling Ford F-series truck in May, a sign of the rapid shift in customers' preferences from trucks and SUVs to small cars that is forcing ...

Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed changes Friday in the way Michigan punishes nonviolent criminals, saying the state is spending too much on prisons and not enough on schools.

BY JEWEL GOPWANI * FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER * May 21, 2008 Gerald Dotson has been to his home in Redford Township only three times since January.