The General Motors Lansing Grand River assembly reached a milestone in the process of adding a third shift to its production. This is the first time Lansing Grand River has been fully utilized since it was brand new in 2001.
GM hired 500 new workers in January to add a third shift to meet increasing sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro demand. Employees were trained over the winter and officially instated this past Monday.
While the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro continues to fire up assembly lines, Cadillac CTS and ATS remain stale for the most part, according to The Lansing State Journal. CTS deliveries remained flat in March, and ATS deliveries were down 8.8-percent.
However, even with poor numbers from Cadillac, the Camaro has been a saving grace. Since the 2016 Camaro moved to Lansing last summer, the plant was able to rehire the 450 employees it laid off in January of 2015.
“We continue to see the positive effects of General Motors’ continued investment in Lansing,” said Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero. “We knew the Camaro coming to Lansing meant big things, and it does – jobs, jobs, jobs.”
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Enjoy, making it Lansing. You took jobs out of Canada to do so.
Are they producing all models? I’m waiting for the sale spike.
I don’t mean to sound harsh, but given that I live in the US, I don’t care if we take jobs out of Canada… it’s their problem, not mine (or ours).
General Motors is a US automaker, it’s cool if Canada gets some jobs out of it, but if the jobs come back here- there is nothing to complain about.
Let the Canadian Automakers supply the jobs there…there isn’t one.
I live in Canada, I would be totally happy for a job to leave the US for here but would be way happier if it were to leave China or Mexico.
Canada makes a quality product.
The fact is they all make the same quality products. What it comes down to is the local unions and what kind of deal they are willing to negotiate.
GM right now has more plants than they need and can shop the new products around to the UAW or the CAW union local that is willing to make a fair deal.
Canada did not lose the car as much as they may have not made as good of a deal. Also GM has the factor that since the bail out they have tried to move as much product back to the US and Michigan as they can. The Alpha is one the union made a good deal on and the products price allows it to be more easily made here.
I wonder if there is a union at Tesla, somehow I seriously doubt it. Not sure there is a real reason for them in this day and age.
Oshawa did a better job with Camaro then Lansing has so far IMO. The yellow 2SS we sold had about a 10 inch paint run in the passenger door, and had some shitty paint coverage in many other spots. Paint and other quality issues are showing up on the Camaro forums as well.
I’ve also seen these issues, I think they’ll work it out.
And Scott I believe the quality in big GM mexico plants is probably up to standards. I’m not sure about feeder shops that supply them, I’m guessing there would be some. Not sure how there quality or even safety measures would stack up to ours.
Hope that get that licked soon! i.e. before I buy a 6th Gen! 😉
where is the New Pontiac’s going to be built?