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UAW FCA US members have ratified its new deal

The Ford Foundation is giving Detroit students the chance to learn about the city's most iconic innovators and entrepreneurs as part of a 10 million dollar donation to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

WARREN, Mich. (AP) - General Motors and Korea’s LG Chem have formed a joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery cell factory near the site of former GM Lordstown Plant in Ohio, creating 1,100 jobs.

The UAW has approved a tentative deal with FCA that will now head to the membership for a ratification vote.

A Michigan museum that boasts the largest vintage automobile collection in North America plans to open a new building to display muscle cars. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports the $5 million project at the Gilmore Car Museum would add more than 25,000 square feet of exhibit space. The groundbreaking is set for next year with plans to open the new addition by 2021. Stacie Longwell Sadowski is the museum's development and engagement manager and says the popularity of previous muscle car exhibits sparked the idea for the expansion. The museum in rural southwest Michigan currently has 20 muscle cars on display, which is expected to double. The Gilmore Car Museum says it has over 500 vehicles and the oldest car on exhibit is an 1899 Locomobile Steam Car.

The United Auto Workers union says it has reached a tentative deal with Fiat Chrysler.

General Motors has filed a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler, alleging the automaker bribed the United Auto Workers Union in an attempt to gain an advantage during labor agreements.

Ford is adding a new sound to their electric vehicles to accommodate the hard-of-seeing and their guiding animals. Because the trendy new vehicles are quieter than their fuel-burning cousins, they represent a hazard to those who can't see them coming. So the Detroit automaker worked with a local sound engineer to achieve that new car sound.

United Auto Workers Ford Motor Co. members ratified the 2019 Collective Bargaining Agreement by 56.3 percent, the UAW announced this evening.

The automotive supplier Sakthi, which makes aluminum castings for GM cars, has laid off 150 workers as the auto giant has parted ways following reports the company is in receivership and under major operational and financial distress.

The new movie Ford versus Ferrari is the story of how Henry Ford II wanted to beat Ferrari in the most prestigious car race in the world, Le Mans. 

Residents and employees in Detroit can anticipate more investment in battery versions of several models owned by both FCA and Peugeot-owned PSA Group

UAW leaders approved a deal struck with Ford Friday afternoon, sending it to union members to ratify the deal next week.

The world is changing and Fiat-Chrysler and France automaker PSA Group is changing with it. The two auto giants are eyeing a merger that would create the world's fourth largest global automotive company.

A Michigan engine plant will close as part of the tentative deal between Ford and the UAW. Under the current proposed agreement between the automaker and the union, Ford would shutter an engine plant in Romeo, which employs 600 workers.

Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Peugeot said Thursday they have agreed to merge to create the world's fourth-largest automaker with enough scale to confront big shifts in the industry, including a race to develop electric cars and driverless technologies.

The United Auto Workers Union and Ford Motor Company have reached a tentative agreement, the union said in a release Wednesday night.

Only two weeks of a lengthy strike against General Motors took place in the third quarter, but that was enough to dent the company's net profit by about $1 billion.

After more than a month on strike, UAW workers are expected to head back to work this weekend after voting to approve a deal between the union and General Motors on Friday, ending the longest automotive strike in 50 years.