General Motors is laying off 1,300 workers.
They just announced they would be delaying electric pickup truck production.
General Motors will lay off about 1,300 workers from two of its Michigan plants, according to WARN notices the company has filed with state regulators.
The job cuts at GM’s Orion Assembly and Lansing Grand River Assembly, which will take place in the new year, come after the automaker said in October that it would be delaying electric pickup truck production into 2025.
The layoffs at GM’s Orion plant will affect 945 workers, while 369 employees will be cut from the Lansing assembly plant.
The Orion plant produced the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV crossover, and GM is planning to produce additional electric vehicles, namely the Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV at the plant. But the company announced in October that it would be delaying the start of production, sealing the fate of workers while the plant remains idled.
In 2022, GM got $824 million from taxpayers in Michigan.
GM promised to convert its Orion plant to make electric vehicles and that they’d create 4,000 jobs in Michigan. more here
Maybe the UAW will blackmail….oops…. strike again as a response.
Michigan didn’t give GM $824M, they let them keep $824M of their own money.
It’s getting nigh on impossible to find anybody — anybody — in govt, corp exec management, unions, and even a big chunk of ordinary working people, who aren’t out to get as much as they can any way they can. “Mouthful o’ gimme an’ a handful o’
much obligedgo fuck yourself.”“Mouthful ↔ handful”
After all, what difference, at this point, does it make?
Stellantis announced 3,500 layoffs a week ago and 33,000 buyouts last month.
In Spring Hill TN, GM is completing construction of a $2.6 billion lithium battery cell manufacturing plant in a joint venture with LG Energy Solutions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Energy_Solution) called Ultium Cells, LLC. It is located on the same property where GM is currently producing Cadillac SUVs, and which will soon be producing the LYRIQ E-SUV crossover model.
This location was originally where GM started its Saturn corporate headquarters and assembly plant in 1985 – another GM new “innovative” concept car – that only lasted maybe 20 years. Not a good track record.
With this latest GM “innovative” all-in gamble, I’m predicting another Government Motors bail out within 10-20 years. It’s the Woke Way.
Sounds like Wittmer got taken to the cleaners by GM; couldn’t have happened to a better gal.
Never owned a Camaro or a Mustang. Always thought too many of them running around and didn’t want to wear a Camaro crash helmet to drive one!
@Harry E — I agreed with you until I read about the Mustang SVO. I owned a 1985½, of which only 438 were made, and enjoyed every mile!
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stirrin the pot
SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 17:19 AT 5:19 PM
“In Spring Hill TN, GM is completing construction of a $2.6 billion lithium battery cell manufacturing plant in a joint venture with LG Energy Solutions”
…that really pisses me off. Spring Hill is where they made my ’95 Saturn SL2, and I really liked that peppy little plastic car, it suited my need for a daily driver that had some giddyup, didn’t use much gas, and didn’t need much care. Only reason I don’t have it now is a drunk destroyed it at the curb in front of my house. It could still limp around on 3 wheels, so I donated it to a friend for Demolition Derby duty, and it did WAY better than I anticipated.
I tried to replace it with another Saturn, but they changed over to making them out of metal again and didn’t make the DOHC engines any more, so I decided I didn’t want just another GM and got a Toyota instead. Shortly after that they folded the label up completely, so I guess folks agreed with me on that.
So now they make batteries no one wants for trucks no one wants there instead.
Would have been better off making the silly little plastic cars…
Where’s my fucking pension, mutherfuckers?
“…Where’s my fucking pension, mutherfuckers?…”
It’s being pissed down the woke EV, oligarch toilet. Hate it for ya.
“In 2022, GM got $824 million from taxpayers in Michigan.”
Why does the phrase “… a fool and his money …” pop into mind?
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Now itz “the fools and my money”!