International Automotive Components Group said the layoffs will occur in two stages—on Nov. 10 and again on Dec. 13. Expiring contracts are responsible for the cuts, said a company spokesman, who added that the employees could be recalled.
The UAW’s regional office appears to be arranging a contract vote by mail-in ballot. Word on the shop floor is that a ballot will accompany a new proposal, which includes $70,000 cash for union members who work for JD Norman for two years. The offer is double the amount in a previous proposal.
Fort Wayne officials say they aren’t giving up hope that Navistar International Corp. will keep some jobs in the city despite the company’s decision to consolidate operations in suburban Chicago.
The parent company of lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel Inc. has raised another $65 million to help finance operations and ramp up its manufacturing operations in the Indianapolis area.
The new engineering lab and a smaller utility building will help consolidate all of Delphi’s 1,400 employees in Kokomo.
A businessman seeking to buy General Motors Co.'s Indianapolis metal-stamping plant met with workers Sunday at Lucas Oil
Stadium to urge them to accept pay cuts allowing the sale.
MotoCzysz sees the Remy motor as part of an electric motorcycle-based drive system—tailored to automobiles. The companies
collaborated on the winning electric bike at Isle of Man race.
The owner of Illinois-based JD Norman Industries came to Indianapolis to make a personal plea for United Auto Workers Local
23 to allow a vote on his proposed five-year contract.
The mandate from a U.S. bankruptcy judge will supply retroactive benefits to more than 6,000 Visteon Corp. retirees who lost
insurance coverage after
the
Michigan-based auto-parts maker filed for bankruptcy in 2009, including 2,100 workers in Indiana.
JD Norman Industries advertisement tells employees that its proposal to buy the plant would guarantee
their GM transfer rights without having to close the facility.
Pendleton-based company reported both higher profit and revenue, helped by a 20-percent increase in hybrid-motor sales.
UAW Local 23 bargaining chairman Gregory Clark says members won’t vote on the proposed contract, which would cut base wages from $29 per hour to $15.50.
The UAW in Detroit said Local 23 will vote Monday on Illinois-based JD Norman's proposal to buy an Indianapolis stamping
plant where more than 600 work, but a local rep says workers don't want to negotiate.
Continental Structural Plastics expects to spend at least $9.1 million on upgrades to the Huntington factory and perhaps have
350 workers working there by 2012.
NHK Seating of America’s plant in Murfreesboro is expected to employ up to 224 workers when all phases of production are operating
in 2015.
The moves will leave about 1,400 employees of Cummins and its contract workers in the Memphis area.
In overturning two lower court decisions, a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia unanimously
agreed with attorneys representing some 2,100 retirees from two Visteon manufacturing plants in Indiana.
Battery company will offer expertise to help Wanxiang build Chinese factory, fill backlogs. Indiana employment could reach 3,000, but there’s no target date for achieving that milestone.
A Franklin manufacturing facility is planning a $9.4 million expansion project that would more than double employment over
the next two years.
A dispute between Allison and a major supplier over allegations of defective parts has grown so contentious that
the supplier is threatening to halt shipments—a move Allison says could force it to shut down.
