Despite GM plant closure announcements, Local 798 fighting to keep Moraine plant open
06/04/2008, 10:40 AM
By Drew Johnson
General Motors announced yesterday at its annual meeting that it will be shuttering the doors of its Moraine, Ohio plant, but union workers at that plant don’t plan to just go away quietly. Although plant workers say the news wasn’t shocking, they still plan on fighting the closure.
“We anticipate having additional meetings, sitting down and talking about contractual issues, meeting with the international union to see where we go from here and what can be done,” Gaylen Turner, president of IUE-CWA Local 798, told Automotive News. Local 798 represents about 2,300 workers at the Moraine plant — which produces the Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy and Saab 9-7X.
However, there is little hope GM will keep the Moraine facility open as the bottom has dropped out on the truck and SUV markets. Along with the closure of the Moraine plant, GM also announced the closure of three other truck and SUV plants.
As of Monday, over 300 workers at the Moraine plant have already taken “special attrition packages.”
The Moraine plant lacked any future product plans beyond 2010, and it is likely GM will permanently close its doors in 2009 or 2010.
06/04, 10:49 AM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
Yeah, that’s real good for our economy. Lazy or not, these guys paid taxes just like all of you, except the few that still live off their parents, you know who you are. I wish 187-ing was legal so I can hunt down some of these oil tycoons.
06/04, 10:58 AM
posted by:
441Zuke
ha, ******* unions. Gm diden’t need any of these plants when the economy wasn’t stagflated so bye plants
06/04, 11:12 AM
posted by:
xyunya
Not all news are bad for Union guys: drop UAW dues and move to Ohio. Honda is hiring.
06/04, 11:13 AM
posted by:
amac
What? So they can keep building vehicles nobody wants to buy? I truly sympathize with the workers but this is a business, not a charity. Times are changing and everyone’s gonna feel the pain one way or another.
06/04, 12:00 PM
posted by:
Supermann1
Adapt or die….close em down and get leaner if u wana survive gm, you wont be # 1 or even 2 in a few years at this rate, but you could hold the 3rd spot.
06/04, 12:04 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
So what do they do with these plants after they’re mothballed?
06/04, 12:07 PM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
Big shakeup ladies…HRR, for all the **** you talk about wasting time with college degrees, funny how all these union monkeys are losing the shirts off their backs. I know one thing – as an MD my job is bulletproof. We could go through the next Great Depression and I’ll still be rolling in 100 dollar bills y’all!!! LMFAO!
06/04, 4:06 PM
posted by:
mayer_ray_nagin
MD = Monkey Dick?
It must, because no MD I know is complaining about filling the tank in a Jeep Wrangler for a 3 mile drive to work.
06/04, 4:09 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
Wentzville is accepting transfers and its 8 hours from Ho-hio.