Chip woes: GM to keep Fairfax plant down into July

by Justin | May 2, 2021 | General Motors, UAW Local 31

General Motors Co. updated its semiconductor plant impacts Friday, saying it will keep one plant down through the first week of July as the company continues to battle the chip supply shortage. The Detroit automaker confirmed that Fairfax Assembly in Kansas, where the...

Saginaw GM plant eliminates 3rd shift production for V6, some employees transferred to Flint and Kentucky

by Justin | May 1, 2021 | General Motors, UAW Local 668

A layoff affecting dozens of hourly workers at Saginaw Metal Casting Operations plant, which makes engine blocks for General Motors, took effect Friday, April 30. Tony Mann, president of UAW Local 668, which represents hundreds of GM workers at the Saginaw plant,...

‘Slap in the face’ UAW says of GM’s move to build EVs in Mexico

by Justin | Apr 30, 2021 | Auto News, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, Mexico

General Motors has picked a fifth plant to build its 2023 electric vehicles and it is in Mexico, which the UAW calls “a slap in the face.”  GM has already declared it will make EVs at four locations in the United States and Canada.But on Thursday, GM said...

Union Vote Fixing Alleged at Mexico GM Plant

by Justin | Apr 26, 2021 | General Motors, International Solidarity, Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico faced its biggest challenge yet Friday to labor-freedom reforms under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement after an old-guard union was caught apparently destroying negative ballots at a General Motors plant in northern Mexico. Labor...

GM to build $2.3B battery plant for electric vehicles in Tennessee, creating 1,300 jobs

by Justin | Apr 17, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors

General Motors and its joint-venture battery partner LG Chem Ltd. will build a second battery cell manufacturing factory in the United States in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The 2.8-million-square-foot facility will create 1,300 new manufacturing jobs, GM said. Those...

UAW and automakers headed for fight over battery plant wages

by Justin | Apr 17, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors

The United Auto Workers union is calling on General Motors to pay full union wages at electric vehicle battery factories, thrusting what was a festering conflict into the spotlight because automakers want to pay less. Read the article here.