The Peterbilt truck plant in Madison[,TN], which has been shut down since employees were locked out in a labor dispute in June 2008, will close permanently as of Dec. 1, the company said Monday. About 390 workers will lose their jobs, said plant manager Larry Vessels.
Source: The Tenessean
OAO AvtoVAZ, Russia’s biggest carmaker, said it may eliminate 27,600 jobs, or about a quarter of its workforce, as it slashes production to cope with plunging domestic sales.
AvtoVAZ, 25 percent owned by Renault SA, said today it’s operating at 65 percent of capacity. The automaker’s share of the Russian market may decline to 17 percent in 2015 from 25 percent this year as foreign automakers ramp up production in Russia, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a report this week.
Source: Bloomberg
More than 15,000 people took to the streets of Zaragoza in northeastern Spain Saturday to protest feared job cuts at the Opel auto plant by Canadian car parts maker Magna.
With Magna expected to cut 10,000 jobs, there are concerns throughout Europe over where the axe would fall.
Source: AFP
Mercedes-Benz plans to cut an additional 200 jobs at its Alabama auto assembly plant by the end of this year, part of the latest effort to bring production in line with slumping global demand.
Source: TheBirminghamNews
Magna International Inc. plans to cut 10,500 jobs at General Motors Co.’s Opel unit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported today, citing an unidentified Magna spokesman.
About 4,500 of the total cuts will be in Germany, the newspaper said in an e-mailed summary of an article to be published tomorrow.
Source: Bloomberg
Russia’s largest car maker, AvtoVAZ, plans to lay off 36,000 employees including 5,000 white-collar staff by December 1, following dipping auto sales and mounting losses.
The company, known for its Lada brand cars, recorded a loss of $447 million between January-June 2009 against a net profit of $47 million during the same period last year.
Source: BusinessStandard
Deere & Co. announced that 367 production workers will be laid off later this month at the East Moline plant. The layoffs are effective Sept. 21.
The factory produces combines and front-end equipment for harvesting.
Source: QCTimes
General Motors Co. will cut about 1,000 salaried jobs this month after 1,900 non-union workers accepted buyout and early-retirement offers to help trim costs.
Source: Bloomberg
The closing of General Motors‘ Pontiac Assembly Center is about to cost up to 180 Flint truck builders their jobs.
GM confirmed Thursday that up to 180 employees at Flint Truck Assembly Plant will be displaced by Pontiac workers with enough seniority to bump them from their jobs.
Source: MLive.com
Continental Automotive Systems U.S. says it will close its automotive parts plant in Huntsville by Dec. 31 next year, laying off more than 1,000 workers. Product lines made in the Huntsville will be shifted to facilities in Seguin, Texas, and Nogales and Cuautla, Mexico.
Source: AP, MontgomeryAdvertiser
General Motors Co. called back 1,350 union workers, its biggest one-time increase in jobs since 2006, as it boosts second-half production, partly in response to demand from the government’s “cash for clunkers” program.
GM is adding shifts and overtime as well as restoring weeks of production at select facilities, as sales top expectations.
Source: Bloomberg
For the first time in decades, General Electric is adding new operations at two of its manufacturing hubs, underlining what the company says is a new commitment to producing in the United States.
G.E. is building a 350-employee plant in Schenectady, N.Y., to make high-density batteries that will turn many locomotives into diesel-electric hybrids.
Source: CNBC, TheNewYorkTimes
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General Motors Co. may have to cut more U.S. hourly jobs after an offer of buyouts and early retirements fell about 7,500 workers short of the reorganized automaker’s target.
The possibility of layoffs was disclosed today by Sherrie Childers Arb, a spokeswoman, in an interview after GM announced that more than 6,000 United Auto Workers members, or 11 percent of the hourly workforce, left the company on Aug. 1.
Source: Bloomberg
Jaguar Land Rover, the luxury unit Indian truckmaker Tata Motors Ltd. bought from Ford Motor Co. last year, needs “major cost reduction” as the global recession hammers demand for its vehicles.
Jaguar Land Rover plans to eliminate 300 jobs and end production of the Jaguar X-Type model sooner than planned as demand slumps, the automaker said July 15. The job reductions at a plant in Halewood, northwest England, are in addition to 2,200 cuts already made throughout the company since September.
Source: Bloomberg
Some 21,000 positions across Europe may be eliminated if Opel is sold to Magna International Inc., the Canadian car-parts maker that was picked by Germany as its preferred bidder, Bild Zeitung reported, citing a letter from Opel’s works council based in Ruesselsheim, Germany.
Source: Bloomberg
Russia: About 27,700 workers of AutoVAZ will be laid off by the end of the year as the automaker continues to downsize, russian news agency InterFax.ru reports today.
Toyota’s dreaded moment is finally here: The Japanese automaker is set to shutter a major factory for the first time in its 73-year history, pulling the plug on a joint venture with General Motors and marking a new era of more aggressive cuts at the Japanese automaker.
Toyota will soon enter discussions to dissolve New United Motor Manufacturing, a 50-50 venture based in Fremont, California, that employs about 4,550 people.
Source: NYTimes
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plans to close its tire plant in the Philippines by Sept. 30 as it trims production capacity. About 500 jobs will be eliminated.
Source: CNBC, AP
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Harley-Davidson Inc. today announced it would slash motorcycle production and cut 1,000 jobs companywide in the wake of weak second-quarter sales.
Source: Central Penn. Business Journal
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Toyota Motor Corp. said it is considering closing a vehicle-assembly plant in California that it jointly operates with General Motors Corp., after the U.S. automaker decided to pull out.
Because of its location in the San Francisco Bay area, the 4,600-worker Nummi facility is a high cost plant for the Japanese automaker.
Source: WSJ
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