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Desperate measures

A worker holds up a sign which reads “Don’t destroy my job” during a demonstration outside the GM-Opel factory in Antwerp, Belgium on Wednesday. U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. said Sept. 10 that it had agreed to cede a 55 per cent stake in the German-based Opel to Magna International Inc., the auto parts supplier, and Russia’s state-owned Sberbank. The Antwerp plant is on the list to close.
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A worker holds up a sign which reads “Don’t destroy my job” during a demonstration outside the GM-Opel factory in Antwerp, Belgium on Wednesday. U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. said Sept. 10 that it had agreed to cede a 55 per cent stake in the German-based Opel to Magna International Inc., the auto parts supplier, and Russia’s state-owned Sberbank. The Antwerp plant is on the list to close.