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General Motors pulls out of right-hand drive markets, ending the Holden brand in Australia.
2020-02-17

General Motors and the United Auto Workers announce that they have reached a tentative deal to end a month-long strike that cost the company US$2 billion. It will be sent to union members tomorrow for final approval. If approved, workers will receive a pay raise and temporary workers will be granted a more simplified path to full-time employment.
2019-10-16

Toyota is once again the world's largest carmaker with 7.5 million units sold thus far in 2015, compared to Volkswagen's 7.43 million and General Motors' 7.2 million.
2015-10-26

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) reach a new tentative four-year labor agreement, averting a threatened strike of the automaker’s U.S. operations. The agreement must be ratified by a vote of FCA's 40,000 U.S. union workers, who rejected the previous proposal earlier this month. If ratified, the UAW intends to use the pact as a template for negotiations with General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Company.
2015-10-8

At least 68 people were killed and more than 180 injured in an early morning explosion at a factory near Shanghai that makes automobile parts for General Motors. The factory produces aluminum alloy tire rims.
2014-08-2

Ford recalls 154,000 Fiestas due to an issue with airbag deployment.
2012-10-16

A contract between the North American automaker Chrysler and the United Auto Workers expires at midnight while negotiations continue between the union and General Motors.
2011-09-15

General Motors announces that it will pay its United States hourly workers more than $4000 each as a share of profits. [http:--www.freep.com-article-20110214-BUSINESS0101-110214013-1318-HSS1201-GM-says-ll-pay-hourly-workers-bonuses-topping-4-000 ("Detroit Free Press")]date=May 2020
2011-02-14

Edward Whitacre, Jr. announces that he will resign as chief executive officer of General Motors effective from September and that he will be replaced by Daniel Akerson.
2010-08-12

General Motors runs a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze into a pole at 12 MPH as part of a development crash test on FMVSS 214 standards.
2010-04-16