General Motors
General Motors is named in 19 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1921 to 2025.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-23 | Trump Demands 10% Equity Stake in Lithium Americas During $2.26B Federal Loan Renegotiation Donald Trump · Lithium Americas · Department of Energy · General Motors | reported | |
| 2020-03-27 | Trump Orders General Motors to Produce Ventilators Under DPA After Nine-Day Delay Costs Lives 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 General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 1989-01-01 | Global Climate Coalition Formed to Coordinate Industry Climate Denial Campaign ExxonMobil · Shell · Chevron · Ford Motor Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions Roger Blough · Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable · U.S. Steel · General Motors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires President Lyndon B. Johnson · Ralph Nader · General Motors · James Roche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices Ralph Nader · General Motors · Ford Motor Company · Chrysler Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Bureau of Public Roads · General Motors · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion Charles Erwin Wilson · Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther · Charles Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1946-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Massive Anti-Union Propaganda Campaign After Strike Wave National Association of Manufacturers · National Industrial Information Council · General Motors · U.S. Steel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1940-01-01 | WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering U.S. corporations · General Motors · Steel industry · War Industries Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-02-11 | General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory United Auto Workers · General Motors · Alfred Sloan Jr. · William Knudsen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1936-12-30 | UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants United Auto Workers · General Motors · Fisher Body workers · Bob Travis · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1936-06-06 | La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage Robert La Follette Jr. · U.S. Senate · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1936-01-15 | La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network La Follette Committee · Pinkerton Detective Agency · Burns Detective Agency · Corporations Service Bureau · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Lund · Du Pont · General Motors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1934-08-22 | American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal Irénée du Pont · John Jacob Raskob · Jouett Shouse · Al Smith · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1921-09-15 | DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control Pierre du Pont · Alfred P. Sloan · John J. Raskob · DuPont Company · +1 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
U.S. Steel
5× shared
United Auto Workers
4× shared
Ford Motor Company
3× shared
National Association of Manufacturers
3× shared
Walter Reuther
3× shared
Alfred Sloan Jr.
2× shared
American Petroleum Institute
2× shared
Burns Detective Agency
2× shared
Donald Trump
2× shared
Dwight D. Eisenhower
2× shared
Fisher Body workers
2× shared
Frank Murphy
2× shared
General Electric
2× shared
Pinkerton Detective Agency
2× shared
Ralph Nader
2× shared
Standard Oil
2× shared
AT&T
1× shared
Al Smith
1× shared
Alcoa
1× shared
Alfred P. Sloan
1× shared
American Automobile Association
1× shared
American Automobile Manufacturers Association
1× shared
Bob Travis
1× shared
Bureau of Public Roads
1× shared
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