| 2025-09-23 | Trump Demands 10% Equity Stake in Lithium Americas During $2.26B Federal Loan Renegotiation
2 src Donald Trump · Department of Energy · General Motors |
| reported |
| 2020-03-27 | Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives
3 src Donald Trump · Peter Navarro · General Motors |
| confirmed |
| 2014-10-13 | GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It
3 src General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government |
| confirmed |
| 1989-01-01 | Global Climate Coalition Formed to Coordinate Industry Climate Denial Campaign
17 src ExxonMobil · Chevron · Ford Motor Company · General Motors · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions
6 src U.S. Steel · General Motors · General Electric | | confirmed |
| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices
3 src General Motors · Ford Motor Company |
| confirmed |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · General Motors · American Petroleum Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model
3 src General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther |
| confirmed |
| 1946-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Massive Anti-Union Propaganda Campaign After Strike Wave
7 src National Association of Manufacturers · General Motors · U.S. Steel · General Electric · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1940-01-01 | WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering
6 src U.S. corporations · General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory
3 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Frank Murphy · Walter Reuther | | confirmed |
| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants
4 src United Auto Workers · General Motors · Walter Reuther · Frank Murphy | | confirmed |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage
3 src U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network
2 src Pinkerton Detective Agency · General Motors · U.S. Steel |
| confirmed |
| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign
6 src National Association of Manufacturers · General Motors · AT&T · Standard Oil · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1934-08-22 | American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal
3 src Du Pont family · General Motors · U.S. Steel · Standard Oil | | confirmed |
| 1921-09-15 | DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control
3 src General Motors | | confirmed |