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The union president who represents workers at a General Motors Corp. plant in Indianapolis says he’s saddened that the plant may close sooner than had been scheduled as part of GM’s bankruptcy reorganization.
United Auto Workers Local 23 president James Kendall said GM told union officials this morning the stamping operations on
GM said two years ago that the plant at 340 S. White River Parkway, just south of White River State Park downtown, would close no sooner than 2011 and it might be kept open. But GM said today the plant would close or be sold by December 2011 or sooner.
Kendall said GM didn’t tell the union when the closure might take place.
General Motors said today it will permanently close nine more plants nationally and idle three others to trim production and labor costs under bankruptcy protection.
Assembly plants in Pontiac, Mich., and Wilmington, Del., will close this year, while plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Orion, Mich., will shut down production but remain on standby.
Powertrain plants in
A stamping plant in Mansfield, Ohio, also will close, and a stamping plant in Pontiac, Mich., will be idled but remain in a standby capacity.
GM says it will also close service and parts warehouses in
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