DETROIT-A laid-off worker at GM’s Orion Assembly plant has filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board in Detroit against the UAW for negotiating a deal to employ 40 percent of the workers at a lower wage rate. MORE
MEXICO CITY-Armed men opened fire on buses carrying assembly-plant workers near the Texas border early Thursday, killing four people and wounding 15 others. MORE
AUBURN HILLS, MI-Chrysler will invest $600 million in its Belvidere (IL) Assembly Plant to support the production of future models in 2012, increasing its investments in U.S. facilities to $2.1 billion since the formation of the new company in June 2009. MORE
LANSING, MI-GM will invest $190 million in its Lansing Grand River assembly plant for the production of a new Cadillac model. The investment will create 600 jobs and result in the addition of a second shift. MORE
WASHINGTON-Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the second drop in a row and a hopeful sign the job market could be improving. The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for jobless benefits dropped by 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 434,000 in the week that ended Oct. 23. MORE
CHICAGO-Boeing Co.’s Seattle-area assembly plant has stopped receiving deliveries of big pieces of its new 787 jetliner while a supplier in Italy makes adjustments. The two-week pause is meant to give the supplier, Alenia, time to fix gaps in horizontal stabilizers. MORE
ITHACA, NY-Researchers from Cornell, the University of Chicago and iRobot Corp. have created a versatile robotic gripper using ground coffee and a latex party balloon. MORE
FREMONT, CA-Tesla Motors will unveil its plans today to modify the old New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. facility here to assemble the Model S electric sedan. MORE
GREENVILLE, AL-Hwashin America Corp. is investing $17 million in its assembly plant here, which produces chassis and other car parts for the Hyundai factory in Montgomery and the Kia factory in Georgia. MORE
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