https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/12/18/gm-layoffs-brownstown-plant/2352156002/ GM to lay off about 50 workers at Brownstown battery plant Dec. 18, 2018 Jamie L. LaReau
[images https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/12/18/PDTF/7f12729f-7803-4a5a-b4dd-3429189f9976-GMBatteryBrownstown06.jpg Wochit / John F. Martin for General Motors https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/10/03/PDTF/4e474337-3b42-405d-aaf9-7699c3ca039d-CruiseGen2AV39.jpg General Motors and Honda have announced a partnership to develop an autonomous vehicle for Cruise. Cruise Automation Generation 2 Bolt EV AV self-driving technology on the streets of San Francisco in November 2017. (Photo: Karl Nielsen) ] General Motors announced plans to close three assembly plants, one each in Michigan, Ohio and Ontario before the end of 2019. General Motors on Tuesday added about 50 employees in metro Detroit to the number of production employees who face losing their jobs. In state filings Tuesday, GM said it will cut 50 jobs at its Brownstown battery plant at the same time it starts layoffs at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which it said in November will be idled later in 2019. The Brownstown layoffs had not been previously disclosed. The filings said the Brownstown workers and 620 Hamtramck employees will be laid off in February. Detroit-Hamtramck makes the Chevrolet Volt [pih] and the Buick LaCrosse. The plant will end production of the LaCrosse and Volt by March 1. About 1,550 people work at Detroit-Hamtramck. GM said it will provide notice of the remaining Detroit-Hamtramck layoffs "closer to the end of production for (Chevrolet) Impala and (Cadillac) CT6." Sixty days' notice of such layoffs is required by law. The filing said the layoffs at Detroit-Hamtramck will begin Feb. 18, or in the 14 days before that, and impact about 620 hourly workers, 28 of whom are skilled trades employees. The Brownstown facility, located Downriver west of Trenton, makes the lithium-ion batteries for the Volt and the mild hybrid LaCrosse. GM will cut 37 hourly jobs and 13 salaried jobs in February at Brownstown, according to a state filing. The Brownstown plant opened in 2010 and employs 110 people, GM said. A spokeswoman for GM said Brownstown will continue to support GM's Orion Assembly plant, which builds the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles and self-driving Cruise EVs. Cruise is GM's autonomous vehicle division, based in San Francisco. In November, GM said it would end production at three assembly plants: Detroit-Hamtramck, Lordstown in Ohio and Oshawa in Canada — plus two transmission plants by the end of 2019. It is cutting more than 14,000 salaried and hourly jobs in the process and ending production of the Volt, LaCrosse, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Cruze, Cadillac CT6 and Cadillac XTS sedans. More: General Motors to close Detroit, Ohio, Canada plants [ https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/11/26/ontario-plant-closure/2112539002/ ] More: GM workers say they had 'no warning' of closure [ https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/11/27/workers-no-warning-closure/2123254002/ ] The targeted plants make traditional sedans that have fallen out of favor as consumers shift to SUVs. Unless GM gives those plants new vehicles to build, they will shutter. GM has said it will add a third vehicle next year to its production lineup at its plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. A future Cadillac crossover will be assembled in Spring Hill. The underused plant already produces the crossover Cadillac XT5 and GMC Acadia midsize SUV. The automaker has said many of the affected U.S. production workers at the factories in question are eligible for jobs at busy plants, including Flint, Lansing Grand River and Arlington, Texas. The UAW has disputed the practicality of transfers for many workers, and the affected communities note that they will suffer in any case. GM will also lay off nearly 6,000 of its white-collar workforce early next year, after 2,250 of them chose to take voluntary buy-out packages. The move is to trim costs and refocus resources on developing electric and self-driving cars. GM has said its salaried workforce skills must shift to the high-tech future of transportation. GM leaders have dubbed the plant closures and job cuts a "restructuring" and "transition," saying the result will be a $6 billion cost saving by the end of 2020. 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