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Before NUMMI, the site was the former Fremont Assembly that General Motors operated between 1962 and 1982. [1] [2] [3] Employees at the Fremont plant [4] were "considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United States," according to a later recounting by a leader of the workers' own union, the United Auto Workers (UAW).
On September 17, GM stopped providing health insurance to 55,000 union members, [7] forcing the UAW to pay for COBRA. On September 26, it was announced that GM would start to pay health insurance again to people on strike. [8] On October 16, it was announced that GM and the UAW agreed on a new labor contract that ended the month-long strike.
CAMI Assembly (formerly CAMI (Canadian Automotive Manufacturing Inc.) Automotive) is an assembly plant wholly owned by General Motors Canada.The plant occupies 570 acres (230 ha) and has 1,700,000 square feet (157,900 m 2) of floor space of which 400,000 square feet (37,161 m 2) was added in 2016, [2] as part of a $560 million investment.
1959 – Developed and produced GM's first unibody car – The 1960 Chevrolet Corvair; 1969 – Fisher's "Side Guard Beam" is introduced. Ternstedt Division merged into Fisher Body. 1974 – Invented the ignition interlock system; 1974 – Produced GM's first airbag; 1975 – Fisher develops GM's first all-metric vehicle, the Chevrolet Chevette
Van Nuys Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Van Nuys, California.The plant opened in 1947 producing Chevrolet Advance Design trucks. Later it would produce several different models including Chevrolet full-size (Caprice, Impala, etc.), Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Greenbrier, Chevrolet Chevelle, Chevrolet Nova/Buick Apollo/Oldsmobile Omega/Pontiac Ventura, and Chevrolet Camaro ...
Delco Electronics Corporation was the automotive electronics design and manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors based in Kokomo, Indiana, that manufactured Delco Automobile radios and other electric products found in GM cars.
This caused closure of GM Korea's Gunsan plant due to low productivity. The GM Vietnam vehicle assembly plant in Hanoi, which was managed by GM Korea, was sold to VinFast in 2018. [10] In 2019, GM Korea split its R&D unit, GM Technical Center Korea (GMTCK), into a separate firm despite protests by unions worried about potential layoffs at ...
In preparation for privatisation, the company was split into GM Buses North and GM Buses South on 31 December 1993. Both companies were sold to their managements on 31 March 1994, and sold on to major groups in 1996: GM Buses South to Stagecoach in February, GM Buses North to FirstBus in March.