June 20, 2011 online at www.uawlocal2250.com
Corrections: Tuesday, June 21 is the deadline to withdraw your application regarding the 63B transfers to either body shop (4 temporary openings) or material (1 opening) if you do not want to accept the transfer. Also, the SUB pay provisions for entry level employees were amended in the 2009 agreement. It is now 13 weeks of SUB for employees with 1 to 3 years seniority and 26 weeks for those with 3 or more years seniority.
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This week’s build information: 54 E-26; 308 slider doors; 148 15-passenger vans; 119 exports; 232 On-star; 350 r/h door delete; 212 diesels; 42 government vans; 80 Enterprise rent-a-car; 78% white vans.
Additional need for Ecotec four-cylinder engines used in Chevrolet’s fuel-efficient cars and crossovers, including the all-new 2013 Malibu, is driving $65 million in new investment at plants in New York and Tennessee that will create or retain 163 jobs. In Tonawanda, N.Y., additional capacity is being added for engines used in the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossovers. In Spring Hill, Tenn., the engine plant is adding capacity for direct-injection four-cylinder engines to support the acceleration of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. GM Is investing $32 million that will create or retain 63 positions.
From the Detroit Free Press: General Motors will idle U.S. truck plants for two weeks in July as it pares inventory of pickups and prepares the factories for output of 2012 model-year vehicles. GM's Flint assembly in Michigan will shut down for the weeks of July 4 and July 11, said Tom Wickham, a GM spokesman. Production at Ft. Wayne assembly in Roanoke, Ind., also will stop during those weeks, said Orval Plumlee, president of UAW Local 2209, which represents hourly workers among the factory's more than 3,300 employees. The two plants make Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups. GM's truck inventory was 288,000 vehicles at the end of May, up from 275,000 on April 30.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: In Avon Lake, UAW Local 2000 President Tim Donovan declined to discuss goals for this year's contract, saying only that he's going to focus on saving the plant's nearly 1,800 jobs. That plant makes E-Series commercial vans, a highly profitable line for Ford. Employment in Avon Lake has slipped steadily over the past few years as commercial vehicle sales fell during the recession. Sales are up this year, but they're only about half of what they were in better times. In 2007, Ford promised to build a new body shop at Avon Lakeand bring a new product line to the plant. But the contract allowed the company to back out when the economy collapsed. Analysts believe that Ford will either slow production of the E-Series or cut it entirely within the next few years as new fuel-economy requirements make it tougher to sell vehicles powered by massive V-8 and V-10 engines. Instead, they expect it to bring Europe's more fuel-efficient Transit van to this country. Winning the Transit or some other vehicle would guarantee future work in Avon Lake. (FYI – this plant will have a 2-week shutdown in July on top of the week of downtime they had the first week of June)
Corrections: Tuesday, June 21 is the deadline to withdraw your application regarding the 63B transfers to either body shop (4 temporary openings) or material (1 opening) if you do not want to accept the transfer. Also, the SUB pay provisions for entry level employees were amended in the 2009 agreement. It is now 13 weeks of SUB for employees with 1 to 3 years seniority and 26 weeks for those with 3 or more years seniority.
If you are having trouble with the online referral screen, you may need to disable the popup blockerhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif of your web browser. If popups are not enabled, at least for that website, you will not be able to continue.
This week’s build information: 54 E-26; 308 slider doors; 148 15-passenger vans; 119 exports; 232 On-star; 350 r/h door delete; 212 diesels; 42 government vans; 80 Enterprise rent-a-car; 78% white vans.
Additional need for Ecotec four-cylinder engines used in Chevrolet’s fuel-efficient cars and crossovers, including the all-new 2013 Malibu, is driving $65 million in new investment at plants in New York and Tennessee that will create or retain 163 jobs. In Tonawanda, N.Y., additional capacity is being added for engines used in the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossovers. In Spring Hill, Tenn., the engine plant is adding capacity for direct-injection four-cylinder engines to support the acceleration of the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. GM Is investing $32 million that will create or retain 63 positions.
From the Detroit Free Press: General Motors will idle U.S. truck plants for two weeks in July as it pares inventory of pickups and prepares the factories for output of 2012 model-year vehicles. GM's Flint assembly in Michigan will shut down for the weeks of July 4 and July 11, said Tom Wickham, a GM spokesman. Production at Ft. Wayne assembly in Roanoke, Ind., also will stop during those weeks, said Orval Plumlee, president of UAW Local 2209, which represents hourly workers among the factory's more than 3,300 employees. The two plants make Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups. GM's truck inventory was 288,000 vehicles at the end of May, up from 275,000 on April 30.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: In Avon Lake, UAW Local 2000 President Tim Donovan declined to discuss goals for this year's contract, saying only that he's going to focus on saving the plant's nearly 1,800 jobs. That plant makes E-Series commercial vans, a highly profitable line for Ford. Employment in Avon Lake has slipped steadily over the past few years as commercial vehicle sales fell during the recession. Sales are up this year, but they're only about half of what they were in better times. In 2007, Ford promised to build a new body shop at Avon Lakeand bring a new product line to the plant. But the contract allowed the company to back out when the economy collapsed. Analysts believe that Ford will either slow production of the E-Series or cut it entirely within the next few years as new fuel-economy requirements make it tougher to sell vehicles powered by massive V-8 and V-10 engines. Instead, they expect it to bring Europe's more fuel-efficient Transit van to this country. Winning the Transit or some other vehicle would guarantee future work in Avon Lake. (FYI – this plant will have a 2-week shutdown in July on top of the week of downtime they had the first week of June)
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