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Spring Hill: Traverse Line to Close for 5 Weeks, Engine Line Down for Normal Two Week Hiatus (Visit this link)
G. Chambers Williams III from the Tennessean: General Motors' Spring Hill assembly plant will be forced to halt production of its Chevrolet Traverse crossover vehicle for five weeks this summer because of weak sales, but autoworkers at the plant said Thursday evening that the temporary shutdown could have been a lot worse. "We had heard Wednesday that it could be up to nine extra weeks," said Michael Herron, chairman of United Auto Workers Local 1853, which represents hourly workers at the plant. Spring Hill will go dark from June 8 to July 10 as part of a plan announced by GM on Thursday to trim its overall production by 190,000 vehicles to curb bloated inventories of cars and trucks that consumers aren't buying amid the deep national recession. The Spring Hill shutdown includes the normal two-week summer hiatus during the weeks of June 29 and July 6, GM said. "We already knew about the two weeks, which is normal for all GM facilities, but we're glad we're only going to have three more weeks off," Herron said. While Traverse production will be suspended, a separate four-cylinder engine production facility at Spring Hill won't be affected, GM spokeswoman Sharon Basel said. The main vehicles that use those engines, the Chevrolet Malibu and Saturn Aura midsize sedans, are among GM's best sellers, and the plant that assembles them, in Fairfax, Kan., won't get any extra time off, either. Its workers will only take one week, rather than two weeks, of their traditional summer break.
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