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- Fire risk prompts GM auto recall
- Police arrest auto workers on American Axle picket line in Detroit
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SportingNews.com – Mar 15, 2008
(March 15 2008) — Jeff Gordon’s attitude toward tiretesting is simplicity itself — the more the merrier. Though his statements about tires after last Sunday’s Atlanta raceweren’t as incendiary as those of Tony Stewart Gordon wasn’t pleasedwith the hard compound Goodyear provided for the Kobalt Tools 500. The following day he tested tires at Darlington a piece of unfinishedbusiness on the newly repaved speedway. And on Friday at Bristol Gordonsaid the choice of tire at Bristol might cause problems for the secondstraight week particularly if rain washes the rubber from the trackbefore Sunday’s Food City 500 Sprint Cup race.
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SportingNews.com – Mar 15, 2008
(AP) — Clint Bowyer outraced Kasey Kahne and the rain to win the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway when it was stopped just past halfway. “It feels awesome” Bowyer said Saturday after a lengthy stoppage as NASCAR tried to resume the race. “I’ll take it any way you can get it. With dark clouds rolling in the goal was simply to make it to the halfway point — when NASCAR considers a race official — and be out front whenever the rain resumed.
Fire risk prompts GM auto recall
Toronto Star – Mar 15, 2008
is recalling more than 228000 Buick Regal and Pontiac Grand Prix sedans in the U. and Canada over a risk they could catch fire and warned their owners not to park in garages until the cars are fixed. The automaker said yesterday it is recalling the 1997-2003 Buick Regal GS and Grand Prix GDP models with 3. 8-litre supercharged V-6 engines.
Police arrest auto workers on American Axle picket line in Detroit
World Socialist Web Site – Mar 15, 2008
Auto workers on strike at American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) in Detroit and New York are facing a sharp escalation of attacks in their struggle to prevent the company from carrying through a brutal two-thirds reduction in their wages and benefits. The 3650 AAM workers organized in the United Auto Workers union walked out more than two weeks ago. On Friday morning March 14 the company executed what appeared to be a carefully orchestrated effort at the company?s main production facility in Detroit involving local police and news media to provoke a confrontation and force an end to the strike. Approximately a dozen squad cars and twice as many uniformed officers accompanied by vans and plain-clothes cops were mobilized when the company moved large semi-trailers through the St. Aubin Street gate of the huge American Axle complex.