GM Sets Non-Production Weeks For Janesville Plant

Company Announced Down Weeks In June

Updated: 2:44 pm CDT July 28, 2008

The amount of production is staying the same, but some workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Janesville will work less often.

In June, GM had announced that 10 weeks of non-production time for the Janesville plant would be instituted before the end of 2008.

GM on Monday released a schedule of those non-production weeks through early November for those who work on full-size sport utility vehicles.

A final closing date has not yet been set for the plant.

GM To Make Further SUV, Truck Cuts

General Motors Corp. said it's cutting production by another 117,000 vehicles as a result of lower demand for pickup trucks and SUVs.

GM spokesman Tony Sapienza said Monday that the Detroit-based automaker will achieve the cuts by eliminating one shift each at its Moraine, Ohio, and Shreveport, La., plants. Most of the cuts will affect production of full-size trucks and sport utility vehicles.

Sapienza said the cuts bring GM's total production cuts to just under the 300,000 units company officials had hoped to cut this year.

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