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UAW strike at American Axle forces GM to idle first passenger car plant

03/28/2008, 12:43 PM

By Drew Johnson

General Motors announced on Friday that the UAW strike at American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. — which has already caused the Detroit-based automaker to close seven of its light-duty truck production facilities — will also force the U.S.’ largest automaker to close at least one of its passenger car plants.

According to Automotive News, GM has confirmed that it will halt production at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, which produces the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS. It remains unclear how long the plant will remain idle.

As Leftlane reported on Thursday, the UAW strike — which was sparked by American Axle asking the union for pay and benefit cuts so that the company can remain competitive with other parts suppliers — could also cause GM to close its Lordstown, Ohio plant — which makes the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 — by next Friday.

American Axle produces brake components for all four vehicles.

While the Detroit-Hamtramck shutdown is a cause of concern for GM, the automaker is more concerned about the idling of its truck and SUV plants as GM sees the largest profits from those vehicles.

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03/28, 1:00 PM

posted by:

mayer_ray_nagin

Where’s “Need More Asslube For GM?”

03/28, 1:03 PM

posted by:

cookie4me

You have it all down there in New Orleans, Ray!

03/28, 1:05 PM

posted by:

jabari

This is called a vacation, nobody is in a hurry to get this strike over.

03/28, 1:21 PM

posted by:

LaCaLover

Well they got 3 months stock to shift at the dealerships

03/28, 1:33 PM

posted by:

enthusiast89

perhaps this would be a good opportunity to stop producing the lucerne/DTS for good…..

03/28, 1:37 PM

posted by:

global_lightning

Concur. These are both slow seller. Ax the plant, workforce, and supply channels. Congratulations, strikers!

03/28, 1:42 PM

posted by:

buenos

GM is on its way back…. its quality is gaining on the competition…. they’re getting close… and…. OOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!! Clotheslined by the UAW!

03/28, 1:51 PM

posted by:

corvette

lets see how long this goes on for.

03/28, 1:52 PM

posted by:

terk184

Where’s Large(aka Limp)Penis640mm? Oh there he is as mayer_ray_nagin

03/28, 2:43 PM

posted by:

DeansterTJ

The less American scrapmetal on the road, the better for everyone

03/28, 4:18 PM

posted by:

jumpoffit

there goes the cars for the elderly

03/28, 4:32 PM

posted by:

jabari

I wish I could say the same about Canadian bacon Deanster.

03/28, 4:33 PM

posted by:

jabari

Buenos, Gm has a 132 day supply and you blame the UAW, good one.

03/28, 5:34 PM

posted by:

AmericanMade

“The less American scrapmetal on the road, the better for everyone” – Your an ignorant dumbass

03/28, 5:41 PM

posted by:

C6Racer

Whatever, anyone who has a ****in clue knows the UAW needs to die.

03/28, 6:27 PM

posted by:

1c3d0g

global_lightning: agreed! This will teach these f*ckers not to mess with GM.

AmericanMade: well f*cking said.

03/28, 6:50 PM

posted by:

LaCaLover

AmericanMade it’s “you’re” not “your” if you are going to get high and mighty about other poster’s intelligence.

03/28, 7:20 PM

posted by:

jackjimturkey

LaCaLover. The possesive of a plural means the apostrophe goes after the “s.”

to wit:

other posters’ intelligence.

03/28, 7:22 PM

posted by:

Jazz

lol jjt

03/28, 7:30 PM

posted by:

LaCaLover

jackjimturkey you need to go back to school,
the dog’s food can either be one dogs foood or many dogs food
the dogs’ bowls means many dogs and many bowls.

Jazz needs to go back to school also

03/28, 8:19 PM

posted by:

jackjimturkey

“The dogs’ bowls” means mutiple dogs and multiple bowls.

“The dogs’ bowl” means several dogs share a single bowl.

If your’re in the U.K., and that’s correct grammer there, I give you a pass (and Chelsea FC rules!)

03/29, 9:18 AM

posted by:

injunraiv

LOL JJM, “your’re”… It’s “you’re”

I know it’s a typo, it’s just FUNNY!

03/29, 10:47 AM

posted by:

kgm777

GM should use this opportunity to change tooling and begin to build the 2009 models.

03/29, 11:02 AM

posted by:

1c3d0g

It seems there are a lot of grammar Nazi’s here lately…it still doesn’t change the fact what AmericanMade said was true. :-P

03/29, 11:22 AM

posted by:

Renton

Unions….ha ha. You killed the goose that laid the golden egg with your constant threats, strikes and overpaid workers.

Now they have an excuse not to pay you.

03/29, 12:49 PM

posted by:

jackjimturkey

raiv: Y’all got me!
renton: they’re generally not overpaid.The companies should have given themstock when times weregood,reducu=ing the adversarial nature of the sides’ relationship.

03/29, 7:58 PM

posted by:

Renton

jackjimturkey — that depends on what you consider overpaid. Some of these folks get six-figures for assembly line work.

03/29, 10:14 PM

posted by:

jabari

Now we make 6 figures now huh, when will it stop

03/30, 2:30 AM

posted by:

DeansterTJ

To the dumbasses like AmercianMade, who fail to comprehend the meaning of my statement:

American car companies give in to auto worker unions that mandate excess pay for menial work and demand equalization of benefits across all workers. This is a diluted form of communism, meaning inflated costs of running a subpar company that is not as profitable as it could be. The American taxpayer fills the government coffers that, in turn, repeatedly bail out these car companies when they underperform. The alternative would be 1000s of layoffs that do an equal damage to the economy.

Ergo, supporting American car companies = supporting a bloated communist microcosm = burdening the government and taxpayers with a needy, overstaffed, underperforming company that needs to be saved repeatedly = totally unAmerican behavior.

Is it clear now, you gooch-sucking monkeys?

03/30, 2:24 PM

posted by:

400horseSS

Deanster when was the last time an American car company was bailed out the 80’s, come on dude your full of **** and why do you give a **** what goes on in America when you’re a Canuck, Toyota ans Honda workers make more hourly and recieve huge bonuses so sre they over paid too or are you a cum bubbling ass pirate.

03/30, 2:27 PM

posted by:

400horseSS

The simple ? is this, when was the last time you drove a UAW designed, engineered vehicle……………..

03/31, 2:33 PM

posted by:

lamboz get a life

deanster-tell me again how many Canadian car companies exist?
I seem to have forgotten.

 
 
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