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UAW could accept pay cuts if GM reopens idled Wis., Tenn. plants
Tuesday, Mar 29th, 2011 @ 6:17 p.m.
United Auto Workers Vice President Joe Ashton told reporters today that the union would be open to negotiating lower pay levels if General Motors restored its idled assembly plants in Janesville, Wisconsin, and Spring Hill, Tennessee.
“We will look at anything when it comes to negotiations that will retain jobs,” Ashton told reporters gathered today at a GM plant in Orion Township, Michigan. Ashton said that the UAW would consider letting GM pay entry-level wages to workers if it reopened the plants.
Ashton was at the Orion plant to tout the UAW’s agreement to a two-tier wage system that GM says will allow it to build small cars at a profit in the U.S. As a result, GM will be the only automaker to build a subcompact vehicle – the Chevrolet Sonic – in the United States. Subcompacts don’t offer automakers much profit margin compared to larger, more expensive vehicles.
Ashton said that he believes it is likely that GM will seek to reopen the two plants it shuttered in 2008, but a GM spokesperson suggested otherwise.
“There is no product demand for them to fulfill right now,” GM VP of Labor Relations, Cathy Clegg, said. “Absolutely we would like to be able to have demand for our products such that we would be able to turn those plants back on.”
Clegg reiterated that GM still plans to shut down its Shreveport, Louisiana, plant in 2012, when it phases out the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks.
“We differ on Shreveport,” Ashton said, stating that he doesn’t think GM will reopen it. “But we still feel GM has an obligation to those employees. If there’s something we can put in that facility, then it should be put in there.”
GM’s Janesville Assembly once built the automaker’s GMT900 full-size SUVs (Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, among others), but the automaker chose to consolidate production at its Arlington, Texas, plant. In Spring Hill, GM still builds engines, but its vehicle assembly facility is inactive. Opened to much fanfare in the early 1990s, it once served as the exclusive Saturn plant before building various GM crossovers before GM moved some production to Mexico (Saturn Vue) and Michigan (Chevrolet Traverse).
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Monday, 18 April 2011
Toyota, Ford to halt plants in wake of Japan earthquake
Wednesday, Apr 13th, 2011 @ 2:15 p.m.
Toyota and Ford have announced additional assembly plants across the globe that have been affected by parts shortages caused by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan last month.
Although most of its plant closures have been in Japan, Toyota now says that it will halt production in Europe for eight days beginning April 21 because of a lack of certain parts required to produce vehicles. Toyota will be temporarily closing assembly plants located in the United Kingdom, France and Turkey, as well as engine and component manufacturing facilities in the U.K. and Poland.
Ford, meanwhile, says that its assembly plant in the Philippines will be closed for 18 days over parts supply interruptions. The Michigan automaker builds most of the vehicles it sells in Southeast Asia (aside from China) in the Philippines, including the Escape (pictured), Focus and Ranger pickup.
Ford also builds vehicles for Mazda at the plant, although it is unclear whether Mazda production will also be affected.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Breaking: Toyota warns N. American plants “prepare to shut down”
Wednesday, Mar 23rd, 2011 @ 5:44 p.m.
A breaking report that suggests Toyota is now preparing to potentially shut down some or all of its North American production facilities has just been released, based on direct conversation with Toyota representatives.
To date, Toyota has halted all vehicle production in its domestic market of Japan, but interruptions in the U.S., Mexico and Canada have previously been limited to the removal of overtime shifts. Now, according to CNNMoney, Toyota North America has notified all 13 of its North American factories that part shortages may force plants to either be shut down, or limited further in production.
The word came from Mike Goss, a Toyota spokesman, who said, “We expect some kind of interruptions.” Goss went on to elaborate that although Toyota resumed partial part production in Japan as of March 17, as reported by Leftlane, the production was only for replacement parts, and only where possible with limitations based on which suppliers were operational.
Moving forward, Goss touched on the fact that North American production could face stoppages due to the fact that, “We’re not just talking about a few companies,” when referring to the many suppliers that were damaged by the natural disasters on March 11.
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