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Nov 30 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Headlines
- European luxury property group Signa files for administration
- Emboldened U.S. union launches membership drive across 13 carmakers
- Google agrees to pay C$100 mln a year for news in Canada
- James Gorman and Jeremy Darroch join Disney board before Nelson Peltz proxy fight
Overview
- Signa Holding, the central company in the sprawling property group that owns half of New York's Chrysler Building, almost all of Germany's biggest department stores and part of Selfridges in London, filed for administration on Wednesday.
- The United Auto Workers has unveiled plans to try to unionise tens of thousands of employees at 13 carmakers with non-union plants in the US, aiming to seize momentum after it won significant concessions from Detroit's big three manufacturers.
- Google has agreed to pay C$100 million ($73.61 million) a year into a fund to support news organisations in Canada as part of a deal with the government, ending a dispute that led it to threaten to cut links to news from its services.
- Walt Disney has appointed two new directors — outgoing Morgan Stanley chair and chief executive James Gorman and Jeremy Darroch, former group CEO of Sky — just days before activist investor Nelson Peltz is expected to nominate candidates for the company's board. ($1 = 1.3586 Canadian dollars) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)