GM To Recall 900 Workers To Mich. Plant

Source: CBS News/AP

A bright spot has surfaced in a sea of negative auto sales statistics for General Motors Corp.

The company said Friday it will recall 900 workers and restore the second shift at a factory near Lansing, Mich., because of increased sales of its Buick Enclave, Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia large crossover vehicles.

Spokeswoman Sherrie Childers Arb said the laid-off workers will come back to the plant in Delta Township starting Aug. 24, with the second shift continuing indefinitely.

"It's an uptick in market demand," she said.

The company also says it has canceled plans to shut down the Spring Hill, Tenn., plant for an additional week in August because of increased demand for the Chevrolet Traverse crossover.



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maybe they will order up some more nylon parts so we can supply it. :)

in fact that`s why she was called back to work. they received three new production contracts through 2012.

hey you never know they just might!

bigger and gassier.

...Don't get excited if people buy the big ones too. Don't forget the rich repukes will still by big gas guzzlers because gas prices are the least of their worries. Let them put more people back to work so they can pay their mortgages. A change is a coming. I believe we are on the brink of a economic renaissance.

at least for the short term, but did people learn nothing from $4/gallon gas? Do people really think that's over? As soon as the economy recovers, and economic activity starts going upward, the demand for gas will pull it back to the over $100/barrel range, and the speculators will make their way back one way or another. These are the vehicles that are resurgent:



(Acadia)



(Enclave)



(Outlook)

This pattern of consumption is unsustainable, and if this is what our recovery is going to be based on, it's just a house of cards, taken down by the next ill wind.

It's a modern, almost new plant in a semi-rural setting, and the workforce in Lansing has long been regarded as among GM's most productive and reliable.

As product mixes shift, that plant will shift right along with them. It's the kind of plant GM most wants to keep running, from a TCO standpoint as well as a quality standpoint.