Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz, Rendered Speculation
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Archive: october 17, 2008
GM laying off 1,500 workers at three plants
Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, GM
The old equation holds true: fewer cars sold means fewer workers required to assemble them. This basic truth has been proven once again with GM's announced lay-offs of some 1,500 hourly workers, The cut's breakdown includes about 700 workers from General Motor's Pontiac assembly plant, about 400 each at both its Wilmington, Delaware, assembly plant and its Detroit-Hamtramck facility.In Pontiac, where GM assembles full-size trucks, the worker reduction is necessary as General Motors reduces its output to just 24 trucks per hour from 55 per hour. In Detroit...
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