Detroit

(Epa/Jeff Kowalsky)

An image of the General Motors World Headquarters located in the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, USA on 30 May 2009. The Detroit-based automotive giant stunned both the German government and Opel employees on 04 November, when after months of negotiations to sell the firm to an Austrian-Russian consortium, it
announced it would now restructure the firm itself. Workers at all four of troubled-carmaker Opel‘s plants in Germany were set to strike 05 November, following owner General Motors‘ surprise announcement that it would not now sell off its European subsidiary.