General Motors News & Videos - ABC News (2024)

The CEO of General Motors Mary Barra sat down with ABC News' Rebecca Jarvis.

1 year ago

ABC News’ Rebecca Jarvis sits down with CEO Mary Barra for “Good Morning America” airing Friday as General Motors unveiled its new electric Cadillac.

1 year ago

General Motors will temporarily shut down eight of its 15 North American assembly plants due to a microchip shortage that automakers need to build vehicles.

2 years ago

The company paused assembly plants for two weeks due to a pandemic-induced shortage of semiconductor chips made overseas.

2 years ago

Before the pandemic, GM announced an initial $20 billion investment in electric and autonomous vehicles.

2 years ago

America’s largest automaker aspires to go fully electric.

2 years ago

The company said it will stop making gas-powered passenger cars and SUVs, becoming the first American carmaker to do so. GM’s medium and heavy trucks will still be gas-powered.

2 years ago

Auto giant General Motors said it plans to sell only electric cars and SUVs by 2035 and achieve carbon neutrality with its cars and global operations by 2040.

2 years ago

Government safety officials ordered GM to recall nearly 6 million pickup trucks and SUVs equipped with airbag inflators that could explode.

3 years ago

Plus, CES plans its next event for January 2021 and Impossible Meat can now be delivered to homes.

3 years ago

The car company picked a plant to build the autonomous vehicles.

3 years ago

Plus, Apple will sell a low-cost iPhone for the first time since 2016, and Google has an app to hide your phone from yourself.

3 years ago

The motor company said the truck will be announced during a Super Bowl commercial with LeBron James.

3 years ago

The United Auto Workers union had been on strike at GM for over a month.

4 years ago

After a month on strike, the UAW and General Motors seem to have reached a tentative contract agreement.

4 years ago

More than a month after nearly 50,000 workers walked off their jobs, General Motors and United Auto Workers have reached a tentative deal to end the nationwide strike, the union confirmed to ABC News.

4 years ago

General Motors and United Auto Workers have reached a tentative deal to end a nationwide strike.

4 years ago

As the GM strike grinds towards a fifth week in what is now the longest in half a century, UAW workers feel the strain and doubt negotiation progress

4 years ago

As the United Auto Workers strike at General Motors enters its fifth week, union leaders voted to increase striking workers pay and allow them to take part-time jobs.

4 years ago

Monday marks the 23rd day of the strike and there appears to be no end in sight as the union and the auto manufacturing giant reached another stumbling block in their on-going bargaining sessions.

4 years ago

The nationwide strike by General Motors workers began on Sept. 16.

4 years ago

Union leaders accuse them of "toying" with their families.

4 years ago

The UAW vice president told workers that negotiations are now on the "Main Table."

4 years ago

Both the United Autoworkers Union and General Motors say negotiations continue, but there remains no clear end in sight.

4 years ago

A spokesperson for the United Auto Workers says the two sides are “still talking.”

4 years ago

The United Auto Workers strike at GM has waned on for nearly a full work week as of Friday.

4 years ago

General Motors is no longer paying the health care costs for the tens of thousands of auto workers who went on strike on Monday, shifting the costs instead to a union fund.

4 years ago

Some benefits have been shifted to being covered by a union fund.

4 years ago

United Auto Workers officials told ABC News they are nowhere near reaching a deal with General Motors.

4 years ago

The company reportedly turned a $8.1 billion profit last year and workers who took concessions before the 2009 government bailout want fair wages and benefits at affordable prices.

4 years ago

Nearly 50,000 workers go on strike after UAW contract talks with GM broke down.

4 years ago

The strike by United Auto Workers has shut down 55 plants across the U.S. as workers fight for better wages and benefits and their share of profits.

4 years ago

The automotive giant announced that they will be closing transmission plants in Detroit and other locations across America, leaving thousands of workers without jobs.

4 years ago

ABC News' Eva Pilgrim spoke with GM employees, some of whom blame the president for the planned layoffs.

5 years ago

He's reacting to the company's Monday announcement of 15 percent global jobs cuts and the closure of four U.S. motor plants.

5 years ago

The automaker will also cease production of six vehicles in 2019.

5 years ago

General Motors, the largest U.S. automaker, announced it would eliminate up to 14,000 jobs in North America as five plants are slated to be shut down by the end of 2019.

5 years ago

The company will shut down seven plants globally in 2019: five in North America and two others globally.

5 years ago

GM is laying off 15 percent of its salaried workers and shuttering five plants in North America, the Detroit automaker announced on Monday.

5 years ago

GM has announced a new round of layoffs despite past assurances by President Trump the company would return jobs to the U.S.

5 years ago

A new app being installed into millions of General Motors vehicles would allow drivers to order food, find the closest gas station and more from their car's dashboard.

6 years ago

Some 3.64 million of the recalled vehicles are in the U.S.

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