GM To Close Plants

[Nelson Atwell]

OKC plant is on the list to close. They make Trailblazers and the GMC twin. They cut back last year when the XUV failed to sell.

 

[Deleted deleted]

That's too bad for those folks...something like 2400 people in that plant alone are losing their jobs. Doubtful that many of them will find jobs paying near what they made working for GM, either.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Maybe they can get jobs at Toyota, Honda, or Nissan plants....

 

[TrainTrac]

Probably not. The GM employees are UAW members. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Toyota, Nissan, and Honda have non-union workers in their plants? If that's the case, then wouldn't the union not allow it's members to work in a non-union plant?

 

[Deleted deleted]

Gavin: Only if they relocate. GM was the only auto manufacturer in the OKC area. Our big employers here are Tinker AFB, FAA, Hertz, Dell (soon), Univ of Okla.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Yeah, I know they have to relocate. A lot of former GM workers in St. Louis who worked at the Corvette plant that closed relocated to Fort Wayne to the new GM plant there back in the mid-80's.

 

[Robert Poole]

Because the GM workers are Union, the "Transplants" will not want them there because they are afraid that the new workers will try to organize the plant, and besides a large portion of the workforce at the "transplants" are temporary workers.



Y'all have a good one



Bob

 

[Deleted deleted]

Some of the GM employees interviewed acted like the plant closure was a surprise?



hmmm... you work in a plant that builds the Envoy/Trailblazer that isn't selling well, and you work for a company on the brink of bankruptcy... what did they expect to happen?

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Yeah, the same thing happened in Tarrytown, NY, when we lived in that area. That plant made those large, space-shuttle looking GM vans (with the really long front windshields). People lost their minds when it closed.

 

[Ray McIntireJr]

If ford keeps putting out vehicles with as many problems as the st has some of their plants won't be far behind!!!!!!!