With stalling sales and an impending separation from General Motors, coupled with a blockade on supplier parts into the company, Saab has been forced to lay off 750 workers from its Swedish operations.

Affecting workers at the Trollhattan assembly plant, which builds the 9-3 and 9-5 sedan and wagon, the move comes after production stoppages due [...]

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Representatives from GM Holden and The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) will meet next week to discuss possible job cuts likely to come as a result of the global restructuring plan unveiled by parent General Motors this week.

The restructuring plan outlines more than 47,000 job cuts, and 26,000 of those are to be made in [...]

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