GM Closing Plants

[Salvatore]

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I work for GM Powertrain, and I know that we will be absorbing some of the laid off workers from the truck plants. I also know that the Orion Township plant here in Michigan where they build the Pontiac G6 and the Malibu is adding a third shift and will be absorbing laid off workers as well.

[/ QUOTE ]Well that is good to know. I hate to hear of job losses and manufacturing going down. God knows we need all the GNP we can get.

[PeteLeathersac]

Not that it'll change anything but Local Union 222 has a hundred or so guys blocking the way to GM Oshawa's Head Office today...hope George Z. can make it through to work Ok!?.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/hom...GM_block_080604

~ Pete

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

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Not that it'll change anything but Local Union 222 has a hundred or so guys blocking the way to GM Oshawa's Head Office today...hope George Z. can make it through to work Ok!?.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/hom...GM_block_080604

~ Pete


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Why? Do people not notice when the landscape changes - corporations need to change - and so do individuals? Geez, if ya haven't seen this coming.... it's time to get a pulse!

[wwchevy]

Typically most of the workers are high senority and will be offered buyouts and early retirement. Some remaining employees will be allowed to move to different plants, so not all of the people who work in these plants will "lose" their job. This is the result of $4.00 gas and new stricter CAFE regulations. GM will have to not build as many trucks and will build smaller cars with smaller engines to get the corporate fuel economy average to the government mandate. Look to congerss saving the environment as the cause of this. I say drill for oil in the US....and do it now!!!!

[Hylton]

Curious - What does GM make now that is selling like crazy?

[PeteLeathersac]

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Curious - What does GM make now that is selling like crazy?

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Financing!.


~ Pete

[DarrenX33]

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Curious - What does GM make now that is selling like crazy?

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Had they built a hybrid Cobalt..

[Keith Tedford]

It was pointed out in an earlier post that the Orion plant is going three shifts for the G6 and Malibu. People will still be buying vehicles, just smaller, more fuel efficient ones. Plants can't switch building product as quickly as these new gas prices came upon us. I think that pretty well everyone old enough to be pensioned off is gone already. I know guys in their early fifties taking the buyout and going. Not many in a good enough financial state to leave at that age. Most still have kids in school and a mortgage. It appears that GM of Canada signed a new agreement with the CAW two weeks ago knowing full well that they had no intention of honouring it. It's going to be interesting.

[Hylton]

Oshawa has been building trucks since 1965. Very sad.