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States vie for GM plant
States vie for GM plant pick
Posted Friday, Jun 12, 2009, 11:06 am in Employee News
General Motors Corp. will decide by the end of the month which one of three idled plants in Michigan, Wisconsin and Tennessee will be restarted to build small cars—a choice that Michigan officials will attempt to sway with a new package of economic incentives, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Emerging from a meeting with Michigan members of Congress on Thursday, GM CEO Fritz Henderson vowed that the automaker would make the decision based on business principles such as manpower and logistics costs, demurring at the suggestion that politics would play a role, the Free Press said. “There are no surprises there,” he said in the story. “We just have to run our process.”
GM has said it would choose from idled plants in Orion Township, Mich., Janesville, Wis. and Spring Hill, Tenn., to build a new small car in the United States, as it agreed to do under pressure from the UAW, the paper said. The union had pressured GM to increase its reliance on domestically built vehicles, after earlier plans called for increased imports from Asia and fewer imports from Canada, the story said. (Detroit Free Press)
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