GM and Rock County business
When will GM close?
Posted by JIM LEUTE on June 20, 2008 - 11:24 a.m.
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GM shifts focus away from trucks
Posted by JIM LEUTE on May 14, 2008 - 7:46 a.m.
A General Motors official acknowledged Tuesday what has been painfully obvious for month in Janesville. Mike DiGiovanni, GM's executive director of global market and industry analysis, told a gathering of bankers and insurance industry officials that the U.S. auto industry is in a recession and high gas prices are changing ...
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Deadline looms for GM workers
Posted by JIM LEUTE on April 25, 2008 - 8:43 a.m.
The clock is ticking on General Motors’ latest special attrition program, as the 2,500 or so hourly employees at the Janesville plant will make a decision on whether to stay or leave by May 22. The program offers full retirement-eligible workers—those with 30 years or more of service—either $45,000 (production) ...
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GM announces new hybrid system
Posted by JIM LEUTE on March 4, 2008 - 8:07 a.m.
General Motors said today it will introduce a second-generation version of the GM Hybrid System with a new, more powerful lithium-ion battery. The next-generation system will be nearly three times more powerful than the system it replaces. Overall fuel economy improvements for cars and trucks using the system are expected ...
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GM workers shine in spotlight
Posted by JIM LEUTE on February 14, 2008 - 1:56 p.m.
If there’s ever been a question about the commitment of the workers at General Motors’ truck assembly plant in Janesville, Wednesday’s production should put it to rest. A day after learning of staggering losses and a new round of early retirement and buyout offers, Janesville workers welcomed the circus to ...
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Big trucks take top honors
Posted by JIM LEUTE on February 8, 2008 - 12:24 p.m.
Full size sport-utility vehicles coming out of General Motors’ Janesville assembly plant are no strangers to the awards platform. At the Chicago Auto Show, MotorWeek, a television automotive magazine series, named the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon as the winner—for the second consecutive year—of its Drivers’ Choice Award in the ...
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Isuzu shelves plans for U.S. plant
Posted by JIM LEUTE on December 13, 2007 - 7:17 a.m.
Isuzu Motors is icing plans to build a new manufacturing plant in North America over economic concerns raised by the U.S. home loan crisis, according to an Associated Press report Wednesday. Isuzu President Susumu Hosoi told Kyodo News agency that the Japanese truck maker is watching to see whether the ...
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Glinski take Fort Wayne job
Posted by JIM LEUTE on December 11, 2007 - 9:31 a.m.
A former plant manager at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Janesville is the new boss of the GM truck plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. Mike Glinksi assumed the top spot in November, moving from GM’s plant in Moraine, Ohio, where he was also plant manager. Glinski joined GM ...
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Tahoe hybrid on the horizon
Posted by JIM LEUTE on November 6, 2007 - 8:53 a.m.
Later this week, General Motors will start building hybrid versions of its Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon. The vehicles, built at Janesville’s sister plant in Arlington, Texas, will hit dealer lots in December. The two-mode hybrid Tahoes and Yukons, the industry’s only full-size hybrid SUVs, will use electric motors to ...
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Core or non-core? What's the rush?
Posted by JIM LEUTE on October 30, 2007 - 3:13 p.m.
Still scratching your head over why it’s so important to properly classify jobs at the General Motors plant in Janesville as either “core” or “non-core?” After all, such a job classification has no effect on current employees, who—as a result of the recent GM-United Auto Workers contract—will continue to receive ...
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Rumors swirl around Belvidere's future
Posted by JIM LEUTE on October 29, 2007 - 8:58 a.m.
In the midst of voting down a tentative contract with Chrysler, United Auto Workers Local 1268 members learned in somewhat shocking fashion late last week that the plant’s third shift might be eliminated by year end. Several hundred employees from our area work at the Belvidere plant, and their future ...
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Belvidere workers to vote Friday
Posted by JIM LEUTE on October 24, 2007 - 7:29 a.m.
Union workers at the Chrysler assembly plant in Belvidere will vote Friday on a tentative contract with the automaker. Tom Littlejohn, head of United Auto Workers 1268 in Belvidere, has said he’s advising workers to vote against the pact because it doesn’t make 600 temporary workers permanent. The contract also ...
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Perspectives on UAW contract differ down the road
Posted by JIM LEUTE on October 18, 2007 - 8:25 a.m.
Chrysler workers in Belvidere return to work Monday after a two-week layoff designed to better align inventory with sluggish sales of the Dodge Caliber, Jeep Patriot and Jeep Compass. And in short order, the 3,600 workers—many from the Rock County area—will vote on a national contract reached Oct. 10 by ...
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