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It just keeps getting worse, it seems, for General Motors. Even as there’s a glimmer of hope that the nearly three-month strike at mega-supplier American Axle might soon be over, the giant automaker is facing still more walkouts at factories of its own.About 1,500 employees at a metal stamping plant, in Mansfield, Ohio, are threatening to walk off the job, on Thursday, if they don’t get a new contract by then. GM reached a national agreement with the United Auto Workers Union last autumn, but individual plants have had to negotiate contracts of their own, and a number of those are yet to be hammered out.
That walkout would worsen an already bad situation. Workers have already gone to the picket lines in Kansas City, Kansas, at a plant making one of GM’s few really hot-selling passenger cars, the Chevrolet Malibu. There’s been a walkout at another assembly line near Lansing, Michigan, which makes large crossover vehicles. That includes the Buick Enclave, one of the struggling division’s few real successes in recent years.
One Response to “GM Facing Still More Setbacks”
Bill Burke
May 14th, 2008 - 4:10 pmI’m a Chrysler guy, but it’s such a crime what is happening to the American auto industry. Are the people at the U.A.W. on the same planet with the rest of us? Their archaic and self-perpetuating practices are destroying the U.S. auto industry. A strike at G.M. in the face of global competition is suicidal. Wake up auto workers to a new era or start looking for new jobs. The “good old days” are gone and the U.A.W. an’t look’en out for you! It’s a crime!
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