• New GE app lets travelers check how often airports are cleaned

    New GE app lets travelers check how often airports are cleaned

    Ever been in an airport bathroom and wondered when it was last disinfected? Now there’s an app for that. General Electric has a new app that lets travelers keep tabs on how often airport
  • General Electric planning to cut 13,000 jobs in aviation unit

    General Electric planning to cut 13,000 jobs in aviation unit

    General Electric said Monday it was planning to cut the global workforce of its aviation unit this year by as much as 25 percent, or up to 13,000 jobs, including both voluntary and involuntary layoffs, citing prolonged aircraft reduction schedules caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The job cuts are the latest mounting woes for the …
  • Trump uses Defense Production Act to order GE, Philips to make ventilators

    Trump uses Defense Production Act to order GE, Philips to make ventilators

    WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday ordered General Electric and five other companies to begin manufacturing ventilators amid the worsening coronavirus outbreak, invoking the Defense Production Act for the second time. In a White House memo, Trump announced he had authorized General Electric, Hill-Rom Holdings, Medtronic, ResMed, Philips and Vyaire to begin manufacturing the desperately …
  • Ford to build 50,000 ventilators within 100 days to help coronavirus patients

    Ford to build 50,000 ventilators within 100 days to help coronavirus patients

    Ford plans to produce 50,000 ventilators within 100 days to help meet the demand for the machines critical to fighting the coronavirus. Through a partnership with GE Healthcare, the automaker said it will start making ventilators by the week of April 20 at its car-parts plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan with the goal of producing 50,000 …
  • General Electric’s aviation unit to cut 10 percent of US employees

    General Electric’s aviation unit to cut 10 percent of US employees

    General Electric’s aviation unit plans to cut its total US workforce by about 10 percent, chief executive officer Larry Culp said Monday, as airlines delay purchases amid the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to employees, Culp also said he would forgo his salary for the rest of 2020. The company’s aviation business makes engines for …