The proposed General Motors UAW contract includes new production allocation to the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in the way of an electric pickup truck and also an electric van.
The Detroit News obtained a copy of documents outlining previously unreleased details of the proposal, which indicate GM will assign production of its upcoming electric pickup truck to the Metro Detroit plant. While it was previously reported the electric pickup would likely be built at Detroit-Hamtramck, reports about an electric van heading there are new. We were aware GM was interested in producing an electric utility van, with the automaker indicating its upcoming EV platform would be flexible enough to underpin all types of vehicles, but this report essentially confirms the automaker is going ahead with the idea.
We previously reported the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size utility vans would remain in production until 2023. It’s not clear if the van set to be built at Detroit-Hamtramck will replace the Express and Savana, or if it will be a different product entirely.
In addition to the electric truck and van, Detroit-Hamtramck would also house a battery cell production facility under the proposed contract. These three projects would support as many as 2,225 jobs at the plant when running at full capacity. GM plans to invest $3 billion into the plant to convert it to produce electric vehicles and battery cells.
In total, the proposed contract would see GM invest $7 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations and add or retain 9,000 U.S. jobs. Of that, $1.5 billion would go to its Wentzville Assembly plant in order to support production of the next-generation Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, retaining 2,000 jobs at the facility, while a combined $1 billion would go to Spring Hill Manufacturing for production of next-generation crossovers. Spring Hill currently builds the GMC Acadia, Cadillac XT5 and Cadillac XT6. Another $2 billion of the claimed $7 billion investment will be for refurbishing other U.S. plants, though the document The Detroit News obtained did not specify where exactly the investments would go.
The UAW is set to vote on the contract proposal, with members expected to start turning on ballots on Saturday and the votes tallied before the end of the month. In an unexpected turn of events, the union decided to remain on strike while the ratification vote proceeds, rather than returning to work for the interim.
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I’m sure the UAW want’s a timeline on the production to start, any word when this E-truck is supposed to start rolling?
What about the CT6??? Does it continue in production post Jan 2020? No one cares about electric garbage!
The UAW should not dictate future product plans. Build what is put before them from what market research has determined and what engineers have laboured over, or let them or suffer the consequences of their inaction.
According to CNBC, it does not. Production will end in a few weeks.
“A fourth plant in Detroit that was also slated for closure, as previously reported by CNBC, will be spared to build a new all-electric pickup for the automaker, if the deal is ratified. The assembly plant is still slated to end production of the Cadillac CT6 and Chevrolet Impala by January.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/gm-deal-with-uaw-includes-closing-three-us-plants-11000-ratification-bonuses.html
Please oh please bring back Hummer as a Premium EV Off Road Brand. GM will be printing money.
I totally agree! HUMMER has been unfairly targeted due to its relative fuel inefficiency by many groups (we’ll avoid the politics). Large Toyota and Nissan models, as well as many other GM, Ford, and RAM products had models that were just as inefficient. HUMMERs are solid, beautiful, strong, and well-liked by most people. All-electric models would render their argument useless and provide us with something truly great. GM must keep the brand distinctive and NOT water the line down with crossovers (like Jeep has).
$11K in exchange for the flexibility to cut my job at any time, I think not. Remember what GM did to our brothers in Oshawa, Lordstown, Brownstown. They will not hesitate to do the same to us at any time. No deal!
As a former Lordstown employee, if I had to choose between $11000 and job security, I know which one I would choose
UAW leadership still has not provided details about the $7.7B investments in US factories. In my 30+ years serving the UAW, never have they been so tight lipped. Something stinks
GM violated the terms of the current UAW agreement by idling 4 plants and they will most likely break the terms of the new one. Who is going to stop them? No one
The 100 year era of G.M.’s operations in Canada’s starting with the McLaughlin – Buick that founded the subsequent award /cost winning Oshawa Assembly operation that shuts down next month certainly shows there is no security in Assembly operations today ,because free trade permits building product not where it’s sold but any where that management decides including Mexico, China or Korea causing losses in the U.S. and .Canadian economies and manufacturing capability .At the same time that Oshawa shuts down GM is building a high tech.electric vehicle testing track on the property of the alternative tiny 300 person stamping plant out of an 8 million square feet manufacturing facility with a nearly new paint shop ,does this make any sense ?