General Motors will lay off 800 workers at its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant starting on February 28th, 2020, a notice sent to workers on Tuesday indicates.
This move spells the end of production for both the Cadillac CT6 and Chevrolet Impala sedans. Production of the CT6 will officially end in January, while the Impala will stop rolling off the line on February 28.
The 753 union workers at the plant will be offered jobs at other GM facilities, GM spokesman Dan Flores said.
“As previously announced, production of the Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac CT6 at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly will be complete in early 2020,” Flores told the Detroit Free Press. “We have job opportunities for all D-Ham team members covered by the UAW-GM National Agreement. We expect to have opportunities in Michigan and Ohio.”
Detroit-Hamtramck will be shut down in early 2020 in order to undergo extensive re-tooling to build the automaker’s new line of large electric vehicles. Production of its electric pickup will begin at the plant in mid-to-late 2021. An electric Hummer SUV and an electric Cadillac crossover may eventually join the truck at the Metro Detroit plant as well.
The electric vehicle programs will bring roughly 2,225 jobs back to Detroit-Hamtramck once the 4-million sq.-ft. facility is up and running at full capacity by the mid-2020s. GM has also committed $3 billion in investments to the plant in order to produce the new line of electric vehicles there.
In addition to the Cadillac CT6 and Chevrolet Impala, Detroit-Hamtramck was also once responsible for building the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle. GM discontinued the Volt after lackluster sales and pivoting its electrified vehicle strategy to focus on battery-powered vehicles only. This is in contrast to rivals like Ford and Toyota, which plan to offer a mix of hybrids and EVs going forward to give customers more choice.
A copy of the GM document sent out to Detroit-Hamtramck employees on Tuesday can be viewed at this link.
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So is the CT6 still being made?.
My question was the same. I was holding out hope it may go to Lansing for production, or even be produced throughout the retool (DetHam is a pretty versatile facility)...but I'm starting to think this is the end for the CT6. Damn. It. What a waste of a fantastic car (esp. with the updated 10 speed and new CUE system in the 2019 and 2020 model years) and the phenomenal Omega platform.
GM did this to itself, since I have not seen any Impala ad since the 1970s!! And has Cadillac promoted its CT6 especially the PHEV version which uses a powerful FWD hybrid system unique for any hybrid vehicle?
Both vehicles are unique sedans, I have driven the Impala many times, and it is still available in rental fleets, but does Chevy promote it? I see hundreds of Asian based ads promoting their cheap products, since most U.S. buyers prefer the cheapest car they can buy and don't care at all who makes and sell it.
GM, your losses will continue and by 2060 or earlier you will be going through another bankruptcy (I supported GM by buying my 2009 Chevy Equinox during is first bankruptcy), or will be gone forever!
2060? I think you're being generous. Forty years is an incredibly long time. I doubt they'll make it another 15 years.
If GM is still in business within the next 10 years I'll be shocked!
Ha, with the trucks/SUVs, GEM cars internationally and China I'd seriously doubt they going BK again..
It is not advertising, It is not GM's fault the sales of the Impala is declining. It is not going to bankrupt anyone to lose sedans.
The cold harsh reality is the market as a whole is rejecting sedans and coupes. Numbers for everyone are in decline and many models have already been killed or will be killed.
A few global models will survive only by the grace of global sales but that is it.
Buyers choices have changed the market. Also the global economics and the effect of high cost of development is killing models. The sales are going to the CUV models as they are now selling volumes what the sedans used to sell.
Posting all sorts of blame means little and saying they are making a mistake is not true. Disappointment is difficult but it is part of life. It is what it is and the minority will not change things.
I am a performance enthusiast and was once in the majority, Now I am one of the fewer left of a dying segment. But I understand why it is changing and there are not enough consumers as myself to support the cost to bring these cars to market.
Also everyone say I will buy if you build it. Well too few deliver on that promise.
This isn't a Layoff, it's a job transfer. If you are laid off by GM, you are not offered an opportunity to transfer elsewhere. Engineers will probably take their money to California and join an AV startup because those guys need automotive engineers.
I wonder if Cadillac will still produce the "Escala" in December 2021 if they are eliminating the Impala and CT6 full size sedans. It will drive myself and others to purchase a foreign luxury sedan.