• The Last Truck", a new documentary about the closing of a General Motors plant in Moraine Ohio will air tonight on HBO. (npr.org)
  • When General Motors announced that it would close a giant assembly plant outside Dayton, Ohio, last summer, two filmmakers decided to follow the workers there until they assembled their last vehicle six months later. (npr.org)
  • The film follows the closure of the Moraine Assembly plant, a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, on December 23, 2008. (wikipedia.org)
  • General Motors Corp. on March 10 said it had shuttered 11 plants and trimmed production at 18 others because of a strike at a key supplier. (industryweek.com)
  • That's the message from workers at three shuttered General Motors factories that didn't get new products under the tentative contract agreement reached last week between GM and the United Auto Workers, who have been on strike against the company across the U.S. for over six weeks now. (ksl.com)
  • United Auto Workers members on strike outside of a General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas on October 24, 2023. (commondreams.org)
  • Roughly 5,000 United Auto Workers members walked off the job at General Motors' most profitable plant in North America on Tuesday shortly after the company posted earnings that surpassed Wall Street's expectations, reporting nearly $3.1 billion in third-quarter profits. (commondreams.org)
  • The Term Sheet covers the proposed acquisition of -- land and buildings and -- certain machinery and equipment for manufacturing situated at General Motors India, Talegaon Plant," the company said in a statement without disclosing the deal amount. (thehindubusinessline.com)
  • General Motors will begin retooling its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant for electric vehicle production in February, resulting in the temporary loss of more than 800 jobs, the automaker said in a filing with the State of Michigan. (autonews.com)
  • Documents produced by the Department of the Treasury in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding the purchase of a former General Motors plant in Wilmington, Delaware by automotive start-up Fisker. (judicialwatch.org)
  • General Motors has begun work on its state-of-the-art $43-million lithium ion battery production plant in Brownstown Township, Michigan. (motortrend.com)
  • Ohio's two senators pressed General Motors CEO Mary Barra to use the soon-to-be-vacated Lordstown GM plant for one of five new products the company plans to launch next year. (journal-news.com)
  • gmplant/22″/mike1st/mark2nd By WADE DANIELS Contributing Reporter Six anchor tenants and a fast-food restaurant operator are in final negotiations to lease space in the $100 million retail/industrial project proposed for the former site of the General Motors assembly plant in Van Nuys. (sfvbj.com)
  • General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) will invest more than $1 billion to more than double the size of its Fort Wayne Assembly plant. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • When General Motors executives confirmed plans to build a truck assembly plant in Allen County in August, 1984, it marked more than the start of the GM era in Fort Wayne. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), North America's largest automaker, almost sold its Adam Opel AG unit three years ago in the wake of the global economic downturn, but, on the eve of the 2013 Geneva Auto Show, GM's Vice Chairman Stephen Girsky said the company is committed to keeping the ailing German auto company and that a turnaround plan is starting to show results. (ibtimes.com)
  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) -General Motors Co said on Thursday it will extend a shutdown of a Michigan assembly plant by two weeks in the aftermath of a new recall of its Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles over battery issues. (metro.us)
  • According to the Detroit Free Press , General Motors has been unable to recruit a sufficient number of temps to staff its truck assembly plants in Flint, Michigan and Fort Wayne, Indiana. (wsws.org)
  • General Motors Co.'s transmission plant in Warren closed in 2019. (crainsdetroit.com)
  • The developer who earlier Thursday confirmed its plans to tear down the Eastland Center mall in Harper Woods is also attempting to buy and redevelop General Motors Co.'s idled Warren Transmission Plant, Crain's has learned. (crainsdetroit.com)
  • General Motors (GM) will soon be laying off up to 1,500 American workers who currently work at the auto company's Lordstown, Ohio manufacturing plant, while the company's Mexico plant remains unaffected. (breitbart.com)
  • The $450 million investment is said to be "focused on battery technologies," though it's unclear whether any of that money will go to the Brownstown plant where General Motors now builds lithium-ion battery packs for the Volt and ELR. (greencarreports.com)
  • General Motors has confirmed that its Orion Township, Michigan assembly plant will build the next generation Pontiac Grand Am line. (just-auto.com)
  • The first pre-production 2023 Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV has rolled off the assembly line at General Motors' Spring Hill, Tennessee, factory, GM president Mark Reuss announced Thursday on LinkedIn . (greencarreports.com)
  • General Motors (GM) Co. on Thursday idled its Fairfax plant in US state of Kansas where 2,000 hourly employees work due to Detroit-based United Auto Workers (UAW) strike. (daijiworld.com)
  • WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit a General Motors LG Energy Solution joint venture battery cell manufacturing plant in Tennessee on Wednesday to tout rising U.S. electric vehicle and battery production, the department said Monday. (euronews.com)
  • General Motors is telling us it expects the plant to be back to normal Tuesday night. (fox47news.com)
  • General Motors announced on Nov. 26 the closing of five plants. (wkyufm.org)
  • General Motors is calling the closing of five plants a "transformation" and in its corporate announcement said the company is going to focus on trucks, crossovers, SUVs and electric vehicles. (wkyufm.org)
  • Unionized workers at the General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio will see pay raises while they continue to negotiate a contract, if they ratify an interim deal announced Thursday, Aug. 24. (yahoo.com)
  • ROANOKE, IN-General Motors Co. is investing $24 million to upgrade its Fort Wayne Assembly plant here to increase production of the all-new Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 pickups, especially crew cab models. (assemblymag.com)
  • WOWO) - General Motors is hiring over 200 temporary part-time workers for the Fort Wayne plant. (wowo.com)
  • 23 August, 2021 On 17 and 18 August, workers at the General Motors (GM) plant in Silao, Mexico, voted against the current collective bargaining agreement, which since 2008 has been controlled by Tereso Medina, general secretary of the Miguel Trujillo López union, affiliated to the business-friendly Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM). (industriall-union.org)
  • GM has extended summer vacation shutdowns at three other North American assembly plants. (aol.com)
  • The assembly plant at Lordstown, Ohio, that makes the Chevrolet Cruze and a plant near Kansas City, Missouri, that produces the Malibu sedan both have three additional weeks of downtime. (aol.com)
  • An assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, will be idled for two extra weeks to reduce inventories of the Chevrolet Impala large sedan. (aol.com)
  • About 2,000 employees who once worked at GM transmission plants near Baltimore and Detroit and a small-car assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, will repeat that message this week as 49,000 union members vote on the new four-year deal. (ksl.com)
  • So far, a large assembly plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, narrowly voted down the contract. (ksl.com)
  • Including the surprise walkout at GM's Arlington Assembly Plant in Texas-the production site of the company's Chevrolet Tahoe Cadillac Escalade-around 45,000 UAW members are currently on strike across GM, Ford, and Stellantis. (commondreams.org)
  • The UAW's labor action at the major GM plant comes a day after the union expanded its strike against Stellantis , calling on nearly 7,000 workers at the Chrysler parent company's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan to walk off the job. (commondreams.org)
  • A GM Assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri ceased operations on Friday, September 15 and GM representatives said it could temporarily cease operations at a Fairfax plant as well. (kctv5.com)
  • The union called on members at three plants, Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, and the GM Wentzville Assembly Plant in Missouri, to strike after contacts with the three automakers expired at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. (ktvu.com)
  • The UAW has informed GM that they are on strike at Wentzville Assembly in Missouri as of 11:59 PM. We are disappointed by the UAW leadership's actions, despite the unprecedented economic package GM put on the table, including historic wage increases and manufacturing commitments. (ktvu.com)
  • It has long been considered one of GM's most productive assembly plants and has been recognized for its sustainability efforts. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • NORTHUMBERLAND, ON-GM is spending $117 million to prepare its Oshawa Assembly Plant to build the new Cadillac XTS, creating or retaining 400 jobs. (assemblymag.com)
  • The largest U.S. automaker said the extension of the production halt at its Orion Assembly plant that will go through at least Sept. 24 was "a result of a battery pack shortage" related to the recall that followed reports of 10 battery fires. (metro.us)
  • GM's Ft. Wayne Assembly and Silao Assembly plants will resume full production on Monday after GM had to cut production this week because of the global semiconductor shortage. (metro.us)
  • A similar situation exists at the GM Fort Wayne Assembly plant. (wsws.org)
  • The layoff of American workers at GM is just the latest round, as the corporation laid off nearly 2,000 Americans in 2016 at their Lordstown, Ohio, and Lansing, Michigan assembly plants. (breitbart.com)
  • We have worked in every area of the plant, including general assembly, paint, and body-in-white. (alberici.com)
  • At GM Wentzville, we have used our equipment fleet and workforce to self-perform more than 375,000 hours during the last five years on major renovations to the general assembly tooling and paint shop conveyor. (alberici.com)
  • The Detroit News said Saturday that GM is expected to announce it will update its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, spending $450 million and adding 1,400 new jobs. (greencarreports.com)
  • The news, attributed to four "sources familiar with the automaker's plan," adds a second shift at the assembly plant. (greencarreports.com)
  • GM will renovate and retool the plant's general assembly area, body shop and paint shop but is not expecting any significant plant downtime as it prepares the facility for the new models. (just-auto.com)
  • It is unfortunate that the UAW leadership's decision to call a strike at Wentzville Assembly has already had a negative ripple effect, with GM's Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas being idled today and most of its represented team members leaving the plant as there is no work available," the Detroit News quoted GM as saying in a statement Wednesday. (daijiworld.com)
  • Ford already temporarily laid off the rest of 600 workers at its Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne last Friday. (daijiworld.com)
  • The plant is expected to eventually employ 1,700 people and will produce cells for the Cadillac Lyriq, which is produced at the adjacent GM assembly plant. (euronews.com)
  • The land that used to house the North Tarrytown Assembly Plant - where GM operated for nearly a century, cranking out an estimated 12 million vehicles - will soon be home sweet home for suburban urbanites seeking a live/work/play lifestyle along the Hudson River. (westchestermagazine.com)
  • According to GM spokeswoman Renee Rashid-Merem, the workforce at the Bowling Green Corvette assembly plant includes approximately 140 salaried and 660 hourly employees. (wkyufm.org)
  • Squeezing them would be UAW workers from the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, who spent Thursday at Local 22 voting up or down the tentative agreement. (fox2detroit.com)
  • It's pushing for workers to make top union assembly plant wages of $32 per hour. (yahoo.com)
  • The union said GM, Ford, and Stellantis have each offered wage increases of 23%, a significant increase compared to their original 9% proposal but a far cry from the UAW's call for a 36% boost over four years. (commondreams.org)
  • Ford, GM, and Stellantis made a quarter-trillion dollars in North American profits over the last decade,' the union said Tuesday. (commondreams.org)
  • Stellantis on Wednesday said it was immediately laying off 68 workers at its machining plant as a result of the UAW's strike at its Toledo Jeep plant in Ohio. (daijiworld.com)
  • The automaker further anticipates another estimated 300 layoffs at Kokomo Transmission and Kokomo Casting plants in Indiana, according to a statement sent by Stellantis spokesperson Jodi Tinson. (daijiworld.com)
  • The union is negotiating a contract with Ultium Cells, but it also wants the Ohio battery plant and nine others in the U.S. announced by GM, Stellantis and Ford to be included in the UAW national contracts with the automakers. (yahoo.com)
  • Many of the plants affected produce two of GM's best-selling vehicles: the full-size Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks. (industryweek.com)
  • GM said it would invest $3 billion in the plant as part of GM's four-year labor contract with the UAW, ratified in October. (autonews.com)
  • Detroit-Hamtramck is the only one of four U.S. plants targeted for closure by GM's sweeping restructuring effort detailed a year ago that was saved under the new contract. (autonews.com)
  • In operation for the past 73 years, the plant today mainly stamps parts for GM's SUV lineup. (motorauthority.com)
  • The plant closures are all part of GM's ongoing restructuring plan for its North American business, involving a $10 billion cost-cutting program and raising $5 billion in cash. (motorauthority.com)
  • Developing and producing advanced batteries is a key step in GM's journey to become the leader in electric vehicles," said Fritz Henderson, GM president and CEO. (motortrend.com)
  • During a roughly 30-minute meeting with Barra in Sen. Rob Portman's Capitol Hill office Wednesday, Portman, a Republican, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, stressed the impact of GM's decision to lay off 14,000 workers nationally, including the 1,500 employees at the Lordstown plant, which produces the Chevrolet Cruze. (journal-news.com)
  • After a thorough marketing and bidding process, (a) prospective buyer is under contract to purchase GM's former Warren Transmission plant," GM spokesperson Dan Flores said in an email. (crainsdetroit.com)
  • Dan Akerson, then GM's CEO, said last May that the main goal for the next Volt was to reduce its build cost by $10,000 while making the car profitable for GM to sell. (greencarreports.com)
  • Besides a 20-percent wage increase offered last Thursday, GM's current offer to the UAW comes with no plant closure. (daijiworld.com)
  • We have an update on the shutdown at GM's Lansing Grand River Plant. (fox47news.com)
  • We congratulate the brave workers at GM's Silao plant for their determination and for their victorious struggle for freedom of association. (industriall-union.org)
  • The Associated Press reported on Monday that GM planned to announce two new U.S. battery plants, citing comments by President Mark Reuss. (foxbusiness.com)
  • In an opinion piece in the Detroit Free Press on Wednesday, GM President Mark Reuss called his company's contract proposal a record offer, saying the union's demands would be "untenable. (daijiworld.com)
  • GM confirmed in November it would speed up the rollout of new EVs, with plans to offer 30 models globally by 2025, up from a prior target of 20 by 2023. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Like many of the 1,400 workers who built the compact Chevrolet Cruze before GM stopped making the cars at Lordstown last March, Sandquist took a transfer. (ksl.com)
  • At a meeting of factory-level union leaders in Detroit last week, Dan Morgan, bargaining chairman for the local in Lordstown, made a plea to vote the contract down, saying they should stay on strike until GM keeps the plants open. (ksl.com)
  • At Spring Hill, which has a large number of people who transferred from Lordstown, the plant closings were among many reasons that workers gave for voting down the contract 51% to 49%, said Mike Herron, union bargaining chairman at the plant. (ksl.com)
  • But Brown, whose state is home to the Lordstown plant that employs 1,400 people, claims that last year's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act should've been helpful enough. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Portman suggested that Lordstown could be used to help GM fulfill its promise to build 20 new electric vehicle models in the next five years. (journal-news.com)
  • Barra said GM hopes to expand the capacity of plants it didn't target for closing, calling Lordstown an "unallocated plant. (journal-news.com)
  • Brown said he and Portman stressed that J.D. Powers and Associates have given high marks to the Lordstown plant for its workforce, saying the layoffs of the last shift of workers at the plant would devastate northeast Ohio. (journal-news.com)
  • President Donald Trump said last week that he urged Barra to get a replacement for the Cruze at the Lordstown plant. (journal-news.com)
  • He said the tax bill included provisions that are "exactly the kind of thing GM should be using to reinvest in Lordstown for a new product. (journal-news.com)
  • NorthPoint has a long history with former GM properties, including the 2016 purchase of 260 acres of property in and around Lansing, plus others in Kansas City, Kan., and Lordstown, Ohio. (crainsdetroit.com)
  • GM did not say when production would resume, but CEO Mary Barra last month said she expects to have an electric truck in the market by fall 2021. (autonews.com)
  • We are building Chevrolet and GMC crew cab pickups at record volume and mix levels…and the $24 million investment will allow us to build even more," says Mary Barra, GM chairman and CEO. (assemblymag.com)
  • GM has sold 7,592 Bolts through the first six months of this year, after rolling out the car at the end of 2016. (aol.com)
  • The company won't say which models will be made at the new plant, but has said it plans to introduce one locally made Cadillac each year through 2016. (manufacturing.net)
  • At least five plant closings are in the works, which will cost about 30,000 jobs , according to Bloomberg. (ibtimes.com)
  • As part of that spending, the No. 1 U.S. automaker will build two additional U.S. battery plants and move ahead some of its EV investments, said the sources, who asked not to be identified. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The individual battery packs are comprised of 150 unique parts, withall but eight designed by GM, the automaker says. (motortrend.com)
  • The automaker said it would seek reimbursement from GM battery supplier LG. (metro.us)
  • Shutdown periods vary by plant based on launch timing of new or refreshed models across the portfolio and our ongoing efforts to align production with market demand,' GM said in a statement. (aol.com)
  • The plant there had also been slated for a 2010 shutdown, but was moved forward due to the worsening market conditions. (motorauthority.com)
  • The UAW Local 2164 spokesperson said employees have not heard from GM headquarters of any impact on Bowling Green from the shutdown at other locations. (wkyufm.org)
  • GM said it will extend shutdowns for one week at Lansing Delta Township and Wentzville, along with an additional week of Chevrolet Blazer production downtime at Ramos in Mexico. (metro.us)
  • A GM worker in Flint posted a comment, stating: "(A) LOT of people were Permanently LAID OFF people from our plant GM Flint Metal Center then given the OPPORTUNITY to be Temp workers at half the price next door at Flint Truck Plant. (wsws.org)
  • The plant selected for the study was the Flint Metal Center in Flint, Michigan. (cdc.gov)
  • It's time GM workers, and the whole working class, get their fair share,' UAW president Shawn Fain said in response to the company's earnings report, which comes more than a month into the union's historic strike at the Big Three U.S. automakers. (commondreams.org)
  • I think it's BS," a GM Flint truck worker told the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter when asked about the company's scramble to hire temporary workers. (wsws.org)
  • The GM Fort Wayne complex currently includes more than 3-million square feet and employs more than 4,000 workers on three shifts. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • GM employs about 15,000 workers in Mexico, jobs that could be relocated to the U.S. to provide work to Americans. (breitbart.com)
  • The victory is unprecedented for the workers at the GM plant, which employs close to 7,000 people. (industriall-union.org)
  • GM gave formal notice of the layoffs in a state-mandated filing Tuesday. (autonews.com)
  • Fort Wayne lost more than 30,000 jobs and saw its unemployment rate balloon to more than 12 percent with Harvester and other plant closures and massive layoffs at a major General Electric plant. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • She said the company has not announced layoffs, although the corporate announcement said the global workforce of salaried and salaried contract workers will be cut by 15 percent, including a 25 percent cut in GM executives. (wkyufm.org)
  • An emotional film about the workers of a GM plant in Moraine, OH, from the announcement of its closure to its last day in operation. (hulu.com)
  • Another plant in Moraine, Ohio, where the GMC Envoy, Chevrolet Trailblazer and Saab 9-7X are built, will face a similar fate. (motorauthority.com)
  • The area planted with genetically modified crops globally declined for the first time in 2015. (nature.com)
  • The 1% decline - the first in the technology's 20-year global commercial history - was primarily due to an overall decrease in both GM and non-GM crops caused by low commodity prices, says the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), a non-profit biotech industry group that tracks GM crops. (nature.com)
  • The pipeline of GM crops is also growing, according to ISAAA, which says that 85 potential new products are being field-tested. (nature.com)
  • More GM crop types are anticipated because gene-editing methods, including the very popular CRISPR-Cas9 are increasingly being used to engineer crops with new traits. (nature.com)
  • The farmers learn to plant seasonal crops that will provide their families both with food security and an opportunity to generate income by selling their produce at local markets. (ipsnews.net)
  • Rural farmers are often lured into planting GM seeds by the Department of Agriculture by promises of substantial bank loans and the prospect of huge earnings, agrees Lesley Liddell, director of Biowatch, an NGO promoting alternatives to GMO farming by encouraging farmers to inter-crop, use natural fertilisers and non-chemical crops. (ipsnews.net)
  • Yet, small-scale farmers are often so desperate for financial support that they consider planting GMO crops against better knowledge if they are offered the seeds for free. (ipsnews.net)
  • South Africa is the only country within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to grow GM crops - maize, cotton and soya - commercially. (ipsnews.net)
  • The adoption of GM crops in SA has increased over the last ten years and this has also filtered down to small-scale farmers,' confirms Priscilla Sehoole, chief communications officer of the national Department of Agriculture. (ipsnews.net)
  • The GM industry is pushing for harmonised legislation because it will make it easier to commercialise varieties of GM crops across countries. (ipsnews.net)
  • Genetically modified (GM) crops and food have aroused controversy in Europe. (idw-online.de)
  • Reichert and Bognar spoke to several hundred of the nearly 3,000 workers at the plant who were to lose their jobs as a result of the closure. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lacking access to film inside the plant itself, the filmmakers supplied some of the workers with Flip Video Mino cameras to smuggle into the factory, allowing them to acquire footage of some of the final vehicles being assembled there. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most of the workers who lost their jobs at the three sites are scattered across the country after transferring to other GM factories, so they have a presence at just about all of the automaker's plants. (ksl.com)
  • Union spokesman Brian Rothenberg said bargainers did the best they could, getting the company to agree to early retirement and buyout offers for workers from the closed factories who didn't move to other GM plants. (ksl.com)
  • Kristin Dziczek, vice president of labor and manufacturing at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank, said she doesn't think there are enough workers from the closed plants to influence the others and get the deal voted down. (ksl.com)
  • It's time GM workers, and the whole working class, get their fair share,' said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. (commondreams.org)
  • The UAW's contract with GM says employment at the plant eventually will triple, to 2,225 workers at full production. (autonews.com)
  • The plant's 753 UAW-represented hourly workers will be offered transfers, likely to locations in Michigan and Ohio, GM said in a statement. (autonews.com)
  • Some workers displaced by the retooling may be able to transfer back as jobs open up, but "hourly employee recall rights will be determined by the provisions of their collective bargaining agreement," GM spokesman Dan Flores said. (autonews.com)
  • Fewer than 40 hourly workers will stay at the plant until March or April. (autonews.com)
  • The ongoing auto workers strike could soon impact plants in the Kansas City Metro. (kctv5.com)
  • She said the company is working with the United Auto Workers on contract issues related to the decision to shutter the plant. (journal-news.com)
  • We have several plants and I think about 4,000 workers in addition to what we are talking about now. (journal-news.com)
  • (FOX 2) - Big Three automakers expressed disappointment as UAW workers walked out of its plants to strike Friday. (ktvu.com)
  • At the time, United Auto Workers officials said without the investment, the plant would likely have closed. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • Rather than solidarizing themselves with the needs of workers, UAW officials interviewed by the Free Press spoke unabashedly as cheap-labor contractors, identifying with GM and offering friendly advice as to how "we" (the UAW and GM) can overcome the labor shortage. (wsws.org)
  • Eric Welter, UAW Local 598 shop chairman at the Flint truck plant, said, "GM needs these trucks and I won't continue running a schedule that doesn't support my workers and they don't want to do that either. (wsws.org)
  • Under the federal pandemic unemployment supplement, US workers have been receiving almost as much in unemployment benefits as GM pays its temps, while saving on transportation and child care and avoiding working in crowded and unsafe factories. (wsws.org)
  • They have been TEMPS now for ALMOST TWO YEARS and if they wanted to be Permanent Workers again given the OPPORTUNITY to do that if they transferred to plants outside the Flint area. (wsws.org)
  • In total, the poor sales of the sedan Cruze will leave 1,500 American workers laid off, which is about half of workers currently working at the plant. (breitbart.com)
  • A spokesperson at the United Auto Workers Local 2164 in Bowling Green said about 800 employees at the Corvette plant are union members. (wkyufm.org)
  • Voting is still underway by UAW members on a proposed contract with GM as workers at the Detroit Hamtramck plant case their ballots. (fox2detroit.com)
  • The United Auto Workers union said that the 1,100 workers at the Ultium Cells plant near Warren, Ohio, will get $3 to $4 per hour increases as well as thousands of dollars in back pay. (yahoo.com)
  • Workers at the plant, jointly owned by battery maker LG Energy Solution, now start at $16.50 per hour, which UAW President Shawn Fain has criticized as too low. (yahoo.com)
  • The union says workers who may lose jobs at engine and transmission plants will need a place to go once the country makes a transition to electric vehicles. (yahoo.com)
  • Many of Mexico's democratically run unions - including the federation of independent unions in the automobile, automotive parts, aerospace and tyre industries (FESIIAAAN), the "Generando Movimiento" union, the new central union of workers (NCT) and the Los Mineros union - set up camp outside the plant to show their support for the GM workers during the voting process. (industriall-union.org)
  • At the international level, IndustriALL Global Union affiliates in the United States and Canada, as well as the regional network of GM workers, followed this key vote closely and were very happy with the outcome. (industriall-union.org)
  • Occupational exposure to trichloroethylene and cancer risk for workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. (cdc.gov)
  • Other persons at risk include pigeon fanciers and persons whose occupation places them at risk for exposure (e.g., employees in poultry slaughtering and processing plants, veterinarians, veterinary technicians, laboratory workers, workers in avian quarantine stations, farmers, and zoo workers). (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to the FDA, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulate bioengineered plants and animals. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Your plant can be shut down at any time,' Sandquist said. (ksl.com)
  • In November, GM upped its spending plans from $20 billion, a figure that was announced in March before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the auto industry. (foxbusiness.com)
  • While many factories are just changing what they do, some will have to be closed to align with the new face of the auto market, and the next on the list is the Janesville, Wisconsin SUV plant, which will shut its doors by the end of the year. (motorauthority.com)
  • There are a number of very good tenants vying for the spaces, and we expect these to be decent-paying jobs," said Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon, who has worked to get the GM site redeveloped ever since the 2,500-employee plant shut down in 1992. (sfvbj.com)
  • Ford shut its Melbourne and Geelong plants a year ago after 91 years of Australian operations. (manufacturing.net)
  • GM is facing similar union challenges in Germany as it tries to shut a plant there. (ibtimes.com)
  • The plant was the epicenter of the UAW's 40-day strike against GM this fall. (autonews.com)
  • GM has sparred with Democrats over vehicle emissions rules, but last week said it supported overall emissions reductions in California's 2019 deal with other major automakers. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Time-period mortality patterns in a gaseous diffusion plant workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • Any plant slated for closure should be "expropriated" for those purposes. (rabble.ca)
  • The latest, most comprehensive research, funded by the European Commission, examined in detail the issues for scientific value, design and interpretation of animal feeding trials for periods from 90 days to 2 years for the safety evaluation of GM maize. (idw-online.de)
  • This research tested GM maize MON 810, resistant to European corn borer and grown in Spain, and NK 603 with tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate and grown in Canada, both approved for the European market. (idw-online.de)
  • No health risks, including no carcinogenicity, were found for the GM maize tested, reaffirming the conclusions of previous risk assessments. (idw-online.de)
  • 1. Based on previous steps of the risk assessment it was not possible to propose a science-based hypothesis for tailoring the design of animal feeding studies for GM maize. (idw-online.de)
  • The plant will stop making the Cadillac CT6 in January and the Chevrolet Impala in February. (autonews.com)
  • The newspaper continues: "The $16.67 starting wage is in the union's national agreement, but perhaps GM should approach the union and ask to boost it, he [Welter] said. (wsws.org)
  • Ten to 20 years ago it was common for Ontario autoworkers to "occupy" - or threaten to - endangered plants (London, Kitchener, Scarborough, Oshawa). (rabble.ca)
  • But young leftists, who throng to him, may be drawn toward more purely economic projects to replace the impersonal, avaricious and above all humanly insensate motives, like those that killed GM in Oshawa. (rabble.ca)
  • It is the sole GM facility globally to build the Volt and also the Cadillac ELR that uses the same Voltec powertrain. (greencarreports.com)
  • The 2.8-million-square-foot, $2.6 billion Ultium Cells plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, is set to begin production later this year and is the second of three planned JV plants. (euronews.com)
  • The Ohio lawmaker is criticizing the auto company for closing plants and cutting jobs in his state. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Thousands of U.S. jobs are on the chopping block after GM announced it would close plants in Michigan, Ohio and Maryland. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Brown also took a shot at President Trump, who blamed him for not doing enough to save GM in Ohio. (scrippsnews.com)
  • GM and its South Korean joint-venture partner, LG Energy Solution, are already building a battery plant in northeastern Ohio and have announced a second, $2.3 billion battery plant will be located in Spring Hill, Tennessee. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The GM plants to be closed are in Maryland and Ohio, as well as two in Michigan and one in Canada. (wkyufm.org)
  • Trump claimed, without evidence, that steel plants are opening nationwide. (go.com)
  • Total area sown with genetically modified plants fell 1% in 2015. (nature.com)
  • She decided not to plant genetically modified seeds because she has heard that they cannot be saved for the next season and will eventually deplete her soil. (ipsnews.net)
  • Many small-scale farmers are suspicious of genetically-modified seed, but may plant it anyway when it's offered for free. (ipsnews.net)
  • Employees will not receive supplemental pay from GM while they're laid off, Xinhua news agency reported. (daijiworld.com)
  • GM reported in 2020 that it had pulled the Lyriq forward about nine months, with an accelerated development program-likely because the Lyriq's segment is looking so competitive. (greencarreports.com)
  • GM also builds the Chevrolet Sonic small car at the Orion plant, and sales of that car are down nearly 37 percent for the year to date. (aol.com)
  • The new Indiana plant will house production lines to build nickel-rich prismatic and cylindrical cells and is expected to help significantly increase the accessibility and affordability of electric vehicles. (cbsnews.com)
  • GM has five plants in Indiana with more than 5,700 employees. (cbsnews.com)
  • She worked at that plant for 24 years, most recently as a forklift operator. (npr.org)
  • We have talked for the past few years about an engine plant to support our North American production and sales and we are now again investigating this option. (go.com)
  • It is clear that GM can afford a record contract and do more to repair the harm done by years of falling real wages and declining standards across the Big Three. (commondreams.org)
  • On the heels of their previous quarter, which set 'a post-bankruptcy record' in terms of revenue, it is clear that GM can afford a record contract and do more to repair the harm done by years of falling real wages and declining standards across the Big Three. (commondreams.org)
  • He added that the senators "are not asking for charity," but instead for a chance to keep serving the company the plant served for more than 50 years. (journal-news.com)
  • Just two years earlier, International Harvester made the stunning announcement that it would close its sprawling Fort Wayne manufacturing plant, which for decades had been the region's bellwether employer. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • But it's not like GM is the only company dealing with the long and steep European economic slump, which has seen declines in auto sales for five consecutive years and no immediate end in sight . (ibtimes.com)
  • The GM plant closed two years ago, Automotive News reported at the time . (crainsdetroit.com)
  • I think we have a pretty good future over here but the problem is the highlights always look good,' said Scott Ferguson, who has been with GM for 46 years. (fox2detroit.com)
  • GM is cutting production at other plants to work down what Automotive News calculated as a 126-day supply of passenger cars as of July 1. (aol.com)
  • Production began in February at a plant in Shanghai. (manufacturing.net)
  • The issue stopped production at four plants. (manufacturing.net)
  • GM, along with Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) and others have been grappling with labor problems related to downscaling production. (ibtimes.com)
  • GM said it will not resume Bolt production or sales until it is satisfied that the recall remedy will address the fire risk issue. (metro.us)
  • Separately, GM said all of its full-size truck and full-size SUV plants in North American will be running at full production next week. (metro.us)
  • GM will spend approximately $300 million to renovate the plant to build the new cars and production should begin in the second half of 2004. (just-auto.com)
  • EV production at Spring Hill will be supported by a joint-venture LG battery plant . (greencarreports.com)
  • The Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky is not among the five set to cease production next year. (wkyufm.org)
  • The Free Press cites Flint Truck shop chairman Welter as urging GM to drop its pre-employment drug test to increase the pool of job applicants. (wsws.org)
  • The Hamtramck plant also assembles Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedans and Impala full-size sedans. (greencarreports.com)
  • Those plants produce sedans, as well as the Chevy Cruze compact and the Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid. (wkyufm.org)
  • DETROIT (AP) - If they can close our plant, they can close yours, too. (ksl.com)
  • As part of a $3 billion investment, GM plans to start building an electric pickup and van at Detroit-Hamtramck. (autonews.com)
  • The Detroit News first reported that a developer is lined up for the property, citing Fouts' State of the City speech Thursday and confirmed by GM later, but it did not identify the buyer. (crainsdetroit.com)
  • The company is also working with Farmington Hills-based LoPatin & Co. on the Eastland Center redevelopment, which would bring 1.03 million square feet of industrial and warehouse space in a $94.2 million project to the site, as well as another 682,000 square feet of space in a $49 million project to the site of the former Cadillac Stamping Plant in Detroit across from the Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport. (crainsdetroit.com)
  • GM Detroit-based spokeswoman Kim Carpenter said the Bowling Green facility is not impacted by the Nov. 26 announcement. (wkyufm.org)
  • Construction on the new plant is expected to start within the next year, supporting more than 1,000 jobs during the build. (cbsnews.com)
  • In fact, that same year, GM announced they were investing $800 million into a Mexico manufacturing plant where the Chevy Equinox sports utility vehicle is made. (breitbart.com)
  • What would make me happy is: keep the plants open, Stop having two or three-tier away systems and have an actual wage base rate increase each year,' said Mulholland. (fox2detroit.com)
  • GM in August widened its recall of the Bolt to more than 140,000 vehicles to replace battery modules, at a cost now estimated at $1.8 billion. (metro.us)
  • Looking further into the future, GM also plans to cut its Grand Rapids, Michigan, stamping plant by the end of 2009. (motorauthority.com)
  • GM purchases more than 70% of the parts made by its former subsidiary American Axle and Manufacturing Holding Inc., which makes heavy axles, drivetrain and chassis systems and related components for light trucks, sport utility vehicles and crossover vehicles. (industryweek.com)
  • In January, GM said it was setting a goal to sell all its new cars, SUVs and light pickup trucks with zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, a dramatic shift away from gasoline and diesel engines. (foxbusiness.com)
  • GM and Samsung SDI have announced plans to build a more than $3 billion electric vehicle battery cell plant in New Carlisle, roughly 80 miles east of Chicago. (cbsnews.com)
  • That would represent a big boost to GM's battery factory plans. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Earlier plans had the plant closing by 2010 anyway, but the tough market through September has forced GM to move up its timetable. (motorauthority.com)
  • GM will start building the $1.3 billion plant next month in Shanghai's Jinqiao zone. (manufacturing.net)
  • To prevent losses that could have undermined the entire manufacturing sector, the federal government issued an $80 billion bailout to rescue auto companies, including GM. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The expected announcement of increased spending by GM comes less than a month after rival Ford Motor Co upped its EV spending by more than a third to over $30 billion by 2030. (foxbusiness.com)
  • GM confirmed the executive's comments, but sources said the company has not decided where in the United States to build the plants, which are each expected to cost more than $2 billion. (foxbusiness.com)
  • GM has now invested more than $1.2 billion in the plant since 2015. (assemblymag.com)
  • Since 2009, GM has invested $23 billion in U.S. manufacturing - more than one-quarter of every dollar spent by automakers. (assemblymag.com)
  • The plant has been used to make GMC Yukon and Chevrolet Suburban SUVs. (motorauthority.com)
  • The UAW is now targeting a plant in Chicago and a factory near Lansing. (manufacturing.net)
  • All but one of the plants are joint ventures with South Korean battery makers. (yahoo.com)
  • For her part, Barra gave no assurances, stressing that the company is trying to focus on the affected GM employees. (journal-news.com)
  • She said in some cases the company is attempting to transfer impacted employees to other plants. (journal-news.com)
  • Based on fit-testing results, employees tended to prefer overprotection (more attenuation than was necessary according to the GM-provided noise exposure data). (cdc.gov)
  • A major concern is employees "loaned" to different plant departments where noise levels may be significantly different from the home department. (cdc.gov)
  • He questioned why union leaders agreed to let GM close the factories, wondering if corruption inside the UAW influenced the decision to side with the company. (ksl.com)
  • Union staffer Sam Gindin said they should focus on future needs those plants could fill, like public transit, which lowers carbon emissions. (rabble.ca)
  • GM purchases more than 70% of the parts made by fomer subsidiary American Axel and Manufacturing Holding Inc. ,which has been on strike since Feb. 26. (industryweek.com)
  • GM said the strike is costing the company roughly $200 million a week in profit. (commondreams.org)
  • At its peak, Harvester employed more than 10,000 at its Fort Wayne plant and some feared the area economy might never recover from such a blow. (insideindianabusiness.com)
  • Bloomberg is estimating that GM will cut 14,000 jobs. (wkyufm.org)