BUSINESS DIGEST (San Jose Mercury News) Local and StateNews Fremont's

BUSINESS DIGEST (San Jose Mercury News)
Local and StateNews Fremont's NUMMI plant has made 400,000 vehicles in one year for the first time in its 21-year history. Second-shift workers at New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. made that vehicle, a red 2006 Toyota Corolla, on Monday. The line kept moving, but NUMMI President and Chief Executive Yuki Azuma, local United Auto Workers Vice President Sergio Santos and two workers posed for a

DaimlerChrysler, Lear Work on Pricing Spat (AP via Yahoo! News)
DaimlerChrysler AG and auto-parts maker Lear Corp. have agreed to try to settle a pricing dispute in which Lear had threatened to stop shipping parts unless the automaker agreed to pay more.

Seizure Nets Dogs Used for Fighting (R News)
Animal cruelty investigators with the Humane Society seized several dogs allegedly used in illegal fighting. After receiving a 911 call from a concerned citizen Monday, six pit bull terriers were taken from a home on Dengler Street.

Auto Parts Supplier Delphi Clashes with UAW (NPR)
Parts supplier Delphi declared bankruptcy in October, and now says it will ask a bankruptcy judge to void its union contracts. Union leaders from the United Auto Workers say the UAW will go on strike if the company insists on the restructuring plan. Jerome Vaughn of Detroit Public Radio reports.