November 24, 2009 GM plant shaped Spring Hill history Saturn put Spring Hill on the map and paved the way for it to become one of the country’s fastest-growing communities. Here’s a short recap of how it all came together: June 1982 — General Motor’s Advanced Engineering staff first discusses new small-car project. The city’s [...]
Idle GM Plant Forces Workers to Regroup (transcript) Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 By Blake Farmer Two-thousand General Motors employees will lose their jobs this week as the company idles most of its operation in Spring Hill tomorrow. Many of those displaced workers are faced with a choice: try to transfer to Michigan or test [...]
November 23, 2009 GM to idle Lansing Grand River plant Shutdown will last one week Kevin Polzin Lansing State Journal General Motors Co. said today it will idle the Lansing Grand River assembly plant next week. The move will put about 1,000 workers on a layoff that starts Nov. 30. Workers will be back on [...]
Feds offer enhanced benefits, but NUMMI workers push for new production By George Avalos Oakland Tribune Updated: 11/25/2009 09:01:20 AM PST var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } Autoworkers at the NUMMI plant are happy to get a fresh flavor of government [...]
November 26, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091126/OPINION03/911260331 Howes: Toyota not looking so shiny now DANIEL HOWES Is the Toyota Motor Corp. juggernaut losing its conqueror-of-the-world mojo? Because if it was a Detroit automaker that was recalling 4.26 million vehicles to repair accelerator problems, or if it was a Detroit automaker that had broken its historic no-plant-closings pledge, or [...]
November 26, 2009 http://detnews.com/article/20091126/AUTO01/911260411 Pontiac reaches end of the line DAVID PHILLIPS Special to The Detroit News Orion Township — The ride is over for the brand that put rolling excitement on the road for generations of Americans. General Motors Co. built the last Pontiac for the U.S. market Wednesday: a white, G6 sedan that rolled off [...]
GM to build Buick Regal in Canada, restore 600 CAW jobs queryvar=”gm,to,build,buick,regal,in,canada,restore,600,caw,jobs”; David Barkholz Automotive News | November 25, 2009 – 11:33 am EST General Motors Co. said its all-new, 2011 Buick Regal sedan will be built in Oshawa, Ontario, restoring 600 assembly jobs. Production will begin in the first quarter of 2011, GM [...]
Labor boss outlines where GM’s ax will fall at Opel/Vauxhall queryvar=”labor,boss,outlines,where,gms,ax,will,fall,at,opel/vauxhall”; Automotive News | November 26, 2009 – 1:56 am EST RUESSELSHEIM (Reuters) — General Motors Co. has targeted Germany for the bulk of 9,000 planned job cuts at Opel, turning the tables on the country that lobbied hardest for an Opel sale to [...]
