06/11/2009
General Motors opts to keep Opel: Images
The board of General Motors Company has opted to keep Opel, undoing months of painstaking negotiations to sell the European unit to a Russian-backed group led by Canada's Magna. GM confirmed the decision made by its 13-member board after a meeting of directors on Tuesday in Detroit. We bring you the images from Europe and elsewhere.
Employees of German car manufacturer Opel hold up a t-shirt reading "We are Opel" punctured with a knife symbolizing GM, during a warning strike at the Opel plant in Kaiserslautern. Thousands of auto workers put down tools at German factories, saying GM had betrayed their interests by reversing a decision to sell a majority stake in Opel. REUTERS
