|
Toyota to end production at NUMMI plant
Toyota to end production at NUMMI plant
Posted Friday, Aug 28, 2009, 1:22 pm in Employee News
Toyota Motor Corp. plans to end production in March 2010 at a California joint venture plant where it has built vehicles with General Motors for 25 years, the Japanese automaker said yesterday, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The decision would mean the shutdown of the sole auto assembly plant on the West Coast, if no other carmaker emerges to keep it going, the paper said. Toyota’s board voted early yesterday to end the company’s production contract at the Fremont, Calif.-based New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., spokeswoman Cindy Knight confirmed. NUMMI is the only Toyota plant where workers belong to the UAW, the paper noted.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger pointed to the irony that the Toyota Corolla, which NUMMI’s 4,600 workers assemble, was the best-selling vehicle under the just concluded cash-for-clunkers program, the Free Press noted. “It’s unfortunate the company chose to close a U.S. facility after benefiting so greatly from the federal cash-for-clunkers program, which is funded by U.S. taxpayers,” Gettelfinger said. (Detroit Free Press)
__________________
Rick
Nitro Year: 2007 (1 of 113,000 sold)
Nitro Model: R/T 4X4 Stone White
CAT-BACK Exhaust, CAI, Projector Head Lamps
Fully-Equipped w/all factory options
|
Linear Mode
