Transportation

Japan's trade ministry called for nuclear power plant operators to take immediate steps to improve emergency preparedness.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renault SA is making plans to exonerate three executives accused of industrial espionage and fired, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

By Bernie Woodall

DETROIT (Reuters) - United Auto Workers membership rose for the first time in six years in 2010, helped by a recovering U.S. auto industry and expanding to include workers outside that industry, the UAW said in a federal filing on Thursday.

By Phal Gualbert Mezui Ndong

By Neale Gulley

By Kevin Drawbaugh

By John Crawley and Bernie Woodall

WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co and U.S. safety regulators have agreed to a greatly expanded recall of the best-selling vehicle in North America, the Ford F-150 pickup truck, the regulators said.

By Fang Yan and Helen Massy-Beresford

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boeing Co said it would fight a National Labor Relations Board complaint originally lodged by one of its labor unions that challenges the aircraft maker's 2009 decision to establish a second assembly line in South Carolina for the 787 Dreamliner.

By Andrea Shalal-Esa

By Taiga Uranaka

The company said many of the changes will be first introduced at United’s hub at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, and will be rolled out at airports across the global over the next several months.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co's U.S. sales rose 26 percent in April, a sign that the top U.S. automaker has not been greatly affected by supply disruptions from Japan after the March 11 earthquake.

TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will invest about $2 billion in 17 U.S. plants, including a facility here that makes transmissions for small cars, as the automaker shifts from recovery mode to investing in future products.

DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC may add a third shift at plants in Michigan and Illinois, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

By Jim Wolf

* In India, Maruti sales up 4.4 pct, slowest in over a yr (Wraps Japan, Korea and India sales numbers)

Regulators are investigating 865,000 General Motors sport utility vehicles for potential faulty fuel gauges that could tell drivers they have more gas than they do.