General Motors has temporarily laid off 5,000 workers at its Flint Assembly plant in Michigan due to a planned production stoppage.
The automaker halted work at Flint Assembly on Monday due to production complications stemming from the semiconductor chip shortage. As a result, the automaker temporarily laid off all hourly employees at the facility, although they are scheduled to return to work once production restarts on Monday, August 16th. The plant builds the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups.
GM said previously that it was shutting down Flint Assembly due to a shortage of chips. The automaker has been grappling with recurrent production delays throughout 2021 due to the parts shortages. At Flint, this has left some workers feeling a bit left in the dark, Krystal Lab, a first shift employee at Flint Assembly, told local ABC affiliate ABC12.
“I’m not getting paid for our regular weeks,” Lab said. “They’ll have us on one week, and then the next week we’re not getting a paycheck because it takes about two weeks for unemployment to come in or even more than that.”
2020 Silverado HD at Flint Assembly
Another UAW employee at Flint Assembly that ABC12 spoke to, Susan Donovan, said she’s expecting the production delays to continue as the chip shortage persists.
“This isn’t just going to go away quick, no. I think we’re going to be dealing with it,” she said.
GM also halted production at its two other pickup truck plants on Monday, which include Fort Wayne Assembly in Indiana and Silao Assembly in Mexico. Like Flint Assembly, those shutdowns were also related to chip shortages and are expected to end come Monday.
Despite these setbacks, full-size trucks like the ones that Flint Assembly produces have actually experienced the fewest production delays at GM in 2021. The production lines at the GM Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan, for example, has remained offline since March, although production at the facility is slowly beginning to return for the 2022 Chevy Camaro, as well as the 2022 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing.
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My company would force us to burn vacation days so we can’t be ‘absent’ later in the year, then when we return from the layoff remind us we’re a week behind on projects.
Volkswagen Chattanooga plant didn’t lay off..
“VW Chattanooga plant didn’t lay off”
That is news. When they just built the Passat, they laid off workers all the time
They always find the least informed to quote in articles.
Mary has turned gm into a shell of it’s former self. They can’t attract skilled labor because they won’t fairly compensate or keep employees working. Plants like Orion that used to make close to 100k units a year are now down to less than half of that… The future looks like a depressing Orwellian nightmare under Mary’s dictatorship.
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Labor was skilled at one time, but republican cost cutting has resulted in high levels of lead in Flint’s drinking water. Now half the population has evolved into Qanon conspiracy theory believing anti-vaccine mutants.
Poor Pete, the misguided liberal. LOL
Back to your cave Pete.
Liberals ideals aren’t the problem, it’s broad progressive policies that can be problematic.
The real problem is republicans don’t want to pay for $h!t. Infrastructure is falling apart. Schools lack resources. Businesses are moving out of your states, and you’re blaming China for all your problems.
I have been working at Mostly GM Dealers in Parts since 68 .Just Retired Company in the last 11 years the worst I have ever seen.At on point we couldn’t get AIR FILTERS for the Equinox…
Retooling for that diesel corvette…
For those of us in the market for a new HD pickup GM should be more informitive about ordering and delivery window.
If you can afford the ridiculous high price. I bought a Silverado with all the bells and whistles in 2014 the sticker was $38,000 and with my trade in of a 2007 Sorento and my military discount I drove it off with 10 year 120,000 bumper to bumper warranty that I paid extra for the check I wrote was $27,000 dollars. It has 57,000 miles on it and I’m keeping it as long as it will last.
Completely agree with you. I have not seen a single statement from any of the big 3 talking about truck shortages. All I am seeing is trucks prices being well above MSRP. I cant really blame the dealer either since they are just trying to stay open with a limited inventory. I blame the manufactures more so than the chip suppliers too. If manufactures don’t keep a good inventory on critical components then this can and will happen. Shortages will continue to happen as supply chains are disrupted over and over again. The fact that domestic OEMs are so dependent on oversees components is the real issue at hand here. Hopefully this will wake them up a bit.
And so it begins 🤦
Pratt would just give us furlough days or weeks. Zero pay.
How much years do y’all think it’s going to take GM to abandon America and leave for China and Mexico?
ordered a 2022 F-350 King Ranch to replace my cheap 2019 GMC Denali 2500 , ordered in June , and it sitting in my garage . sign a buyers order , and boom they built it fast and no chip problem. very happy , beautiful interior. yes I paid retail for it, theres no deals right now, but I wanted it.
Just saw the post for the King Ranch. They are nice but Ford has weak suspension. If you are going to haul or tow anything with substantial tongue weight, airbags are a must. Extra cost.
No thanks, I’ll wait for my recently ordered 2022 GMC Sierra 3500 DRW Denali. No airbags required.
You can’t beat the 10 Speed Allison tranny.
There’s a reason most big rigs have Allison tranny’s.
The tranny is what sets GM above the rest. Engine are equal.
Feeling nervous I just ordered 5 Gm’s and 1 Ford for my fleet. I’m hoping to see them before 2022
Just saw the post for the King Ranch. They are nice but Ford has weak suspension. If you are going to haul or tow anything with substantial tongue weight, airbags are a must. Extra cost.
No thanks, I’ll wait for my recently ordered 2022 GMC Sierra 3500 DRW Denali. No airbags required.
You can’t beat the 10 Speed Allison tranny.
There’s a reason most big rigs have Allison tranny’s.
The tranny is what sets GM above the rest. Engine are equal.
ussspikes , I agree the F250 10000 GVW stinks , the 1 ton is different , as it is comfortable , but when you need it to tow it does fine. Yea a DRW will haul more if you want to drive around a 747 all day long. My Denali 2500 has a great ride and handles trailers well, and I have a 2019 denali so it has a real Allison , not like the 2022 which will have a branded allison. the new Ford I bought has the new 10 speed, it seems to be fine and its the same trans ford and GM are using. My 2021 Ram 3500 mega cab has air suspension , it does handle heavy tongue trailers well, and I have the cummins HO 1075 torque, and I can tell you when the motor and Aisin is loaded it pulls and pulls anything you want , it dont care. You want a real Allison , Try the Freightliner sport chassis big block that has 505HP /1860 Torque and a Allison 4000 , which will yank you DRW 2022 Denali down the street side ways , once GM builds it next year. by the way , the Duramax is not equal to all motors, it has 900 + torque. The Ram with Cummins HO wins hands down pulling all day long, but the truck is reserved meaning your not going to hot rod it around. . Ford and Gm diesels are fast, but they are all making good trucks, but GM does like the cheap black unpainted plastics all over the body and stupid mirrors mounted on the door, and in 2 years your 90K truck looks like its 8 years old. Gm seats are flat and hard , Ram has best interior hands down, Ford has most comfortable seats and sits well. Ram is the recall king in trucks. GM does not offer a wow factor, no white letter tires , no two tone paint, mostly dark colors to blend with there cheap black plastics, and crappy interiors full of blown plastic. I know these trucks cause I own all 4 above. I hope you like your new DRW Usspikes.