GM may rethink plant investments
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General Motors is reconsidering its $21-billion investment plans through 2002 on plants in the US. The company made the decision following two union strikes, one at the Flint Metal Center and another at the Delphi East parts complex. Observers say that the company is losing $300 million per week from the union walkouts. General Motors said that the walkouts have caused the stoppage of production at 19 of 29 assembly plants and 81 parts facilities, causing the displacement of 79,200 workers. Leaders of United Auto Workers, however, said that the plan to reconsider the investment plans is a way to force the reopening of the Metal Centers contract.
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Is reconsidering its $21-billion investment plans through 2002 on plants in the US
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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GM moves stamping equipment amid strike threats at Flint plant
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General Motors (GM) spokesperson Mary Irby acknowledged that the firm removed its Flint, MI, metal center dies for stamping parts for 1999 GMC Sierra pickups in mid-May 1998. The company had already removed dies for 1999 Chevrolet Silverado pickups from the facility which makes parts for GM truck plants. The removal is an effort to safeguard production of its new pickups and could possibly lead to a union showdown. The metal center is one of four Flint, MI, facilities United Auto Workers threatened to strike due to GM's plans to cut jobs and boost efficiency.
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Removed its Flint, MI, metal center dies for stamping parts for 1999 GMC Sierra pickups to safeguard production
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ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Workaday Flint shivers in strike's long shadow
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General Motors' worker strike at the Flint Metal Center in Michigan has also hurt other businesses in the vicinity. The United Auto Workers' 5,800 members staged a strike against the company's Delphi East plants, which used to employ 30,000 people two decades ago, but noe only employs one-fifth of that level. The job reductions stemmed from the company's decision to turn to cheaper outside suppliers and moved production to Mexico. The strike in Flint saw the 32,000 autoworkers in the area either on strike or laid off.
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Worker strike at the Flint Metal Center in Michigan has also hurt other businesses in the vicinity
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ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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