FOND DU LAC, WI-Mercury Marine won overwhelming approval from the Fond du Lac County Board on Wednesday night for a $50 million, publicly financed loan-a key incentive in what appears will be a successful effort to keep the big employer in town. The outboard-motor manufacturer won't have to repay about $9 million of the low-interest loan if it maintains its current local workforce for 12 years. If the company adds employees, millions more could be forgiven. MORE
MORENO VALLEY, CA-A company that will assemble electric vehicles at a factory here could ultimately employ as many as 2,000 people. For now, South Korean CT&T United will hire about 120 workers to assemble battery-powered vehicles at MVP RV’s factory in Southern California. The first electric cars are expected to roll out in January. MORE
DEARBORN, MI-Ford Motor Company's idled Wixom Assembly Plant will be redeveloped into one of the nation's largest renewable energy manufacturing centers. MORE
CHARLESTON, SC-Workers at a Boeing Co. plant in South Carolina have voted against continued representation by a union as the company considers the plant for a second assembly line for its new 787 jetliner. MORE
WASHINGTON-President Obama plans to make a speech at General Motors Co.'s assembly plant in Lordstown, OH, next week, his first visit to a U.S. auto plant as president. MORE
TOPEKA-Kansas leaders have approved $5 million in bonds to help build a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Hutchinson. The State Finance Council last week approved the deal with Germany-based Siemens Energy. The company chose Hutchinson, KS, as the site of its first U.S. factory that will produce the electricity-generating parts of the turbine. MORE
TORONTO-Ford Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers union began labor talks yesterday afternoon, with the future of an assembly plant in southern Ontario one of the major issues on the bargaining table. Ford asked the CAW to renegotiate its current labor contract, which doesn’t expire until 2011, after the union gave substantial concessions to both General Motors and Chrysler earlier this year. MORE
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