The GM Silao plant in Mexico has been offline since August 11th, GM Authority has learned. The plant is scheduled to resume production on August 28th, 2023, marking a little over two weeks of idle time. The production stoppage is the result of a parts shortage.
In a statement provided to GM Authority, a Chevy spokesperson addressed the recent production stoppage at the GM Silao plant:
“Silao Assembly production is currently down due to a temporary part shortage,” the spokesperson told GM Authority. “We anticipate regular production to resume at the plant on Monday, August 28th. GM is actively working to resolve this challenge with our supplier in order to meet high customer demand for our vehicles.”
For those readers who may be unaware, the GM Silao plant produces the Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 full-size pickup trucks. The GM Silao plant is located in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, and spans some 26.5 million square feet. The facility first opened in 1996, and provides units of the Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 full-size pickup trucks for North America. There are roughly 6,500 workers employed at the facility.
GM Authority previously reported on a production stoppage at the GM Silao plant this past March, at which time the facility was idled for two weeks, once again due to a parts shortage.
More recently, GM announced that workers at the GM Silao plant would receive a 10-percent pay increase following negotiations with SINTTIA, the local labor union. The salary hike is the result of rising inflation rates and is considered one of the largest in the automotive sector in Mexico. Following the ousting of the controversial Miguel Trujillo Lopez union, one of the first things that the SINTTIA did was to fight for a pay increase for workers, initially targeting a 19.2-percent boost to roughly $3.81 per hour. GM and SINTTIA eventually agreed on an 8.5-percent increase.
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“Parts shortage” ie inventory overage as a result of $10k price increase in 3 years
Exactly. They still have a ton of 2023’s to move, yet 2024 orders are open.
This is all to keep prices sky-high. Every manufacturer that got used to COVID inflation money is drunk on it and doing the same thing — inventory manipulation.
I hope every company doing this has it come around and bite them in the @$$. Whether that’s finding workers because they keep laying them off, customers moving to other brands, eating the carrying costs of unsold inventory because they refuse to discount, etc., etc.
The smart ones will be aggressively going after market share during this time to make customers for life. Sadly, GM greed will continue its downfall.
Parts shortage my arse. It’s just to keep inventories artificially lower and justify high prices. WHEN will this massive hoax be discovered? “The Great Vehicle Hoax of the 2020s”.
The corporate class will not be satisfied until everyone is stuck in rental homes and saddled with a $1K per month vehicle payments, being bled dry.
1k? thats old news. we are 1700$+ now on these awesome plastic gmc
Here we go again! When is GM’s Supply Chain VP getting fired?!