Kaiserslautern

(AP Photo/Daniel Roland)

Employees of German car maker Opel protest at the company’s factory in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Opel employees walked off their jobs to attend a mass rally at the automaker’s headquarters Thursday, protesting General Motors Co.’s decision to abandon the unit’s sale to new owners the workers hoped would preserve jobs. Thousands of the 25,000 employees from Opel’s four German factories vented their frustration and anger at GM, which after months of negotiations decided Tuesday to scrap the sale of a majority in Opel to Canadian auto parts maker Magna International Inc. and Russian lender Sberbank. Slogan on T-Shirt reads: We are Opel.