General Motors Co. today (Friday, April 25, 2014) filed its proxy statement for its 2014 annual meeting of stockholders with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and announced the nomination of UAW Vice President Joe Ashton to its board of directors. Ashton was designated for nomination by the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust. Steve Girsky, formerly GM vice chairman, was previously designated for nomination to the GM board by the VEBA Trust and has served as a director since the new company began operations in July 2009. GM’s board nominated him to remain a director.