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The panel has asked Chao, who oversees NHTSA, to provide communications between her or other DOT officials and employees of the Foremost Group, a shipping company founded by her father.

For union members walking the picket lines outside General Motors' U.S. plants, the talks between the UAW and the company come down to the basics: better wages and benefits with job security for some 46,000 hourly employees.

The agency in February 2018 finalized long-delayed rules requiring EVs and hybrids to emit alert sounds to warn pedestrians of their approach, extending to 2020 the deadline for full compliance.

Paul Ingrassia, a longtime journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters who won a 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of a boardroom revolt at General Motors, has died after battling cancer. He was 69.

Becca Polak announced her resignation as president of KAR Auction Services' TradeRev unit, which has weighed on the company's earnings, effective Oct. 8. TradeRev co-founder Mark Endras will take over the role.

The move comes two months after David Rosenberg sued GPB, which is embroiled in several regulatory investigations and lawsuits.

The automaker first proposed that UAW members pay 15 percent of health care costs, sources said, well below the national average of 28 percent but far higher than the 3 to 4 percent workers currently pay.

The pledge will be part of a joint statement on trade due to be released following a meeting between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week in New York, the Tokyo Shimbun reported.

Members of Unifor Local 200 returned to work at Nemak for the 11 p.m. shift Sunday, ending the two-week-long strike. The plant supplies engine blocks to General Motors.

Suppliers have not yet been instructed by General Motors to slow or stop parts production, said Steven Wybo, senior managing director of turnaround advisory firm Conway MacKenzie.