Monday, November 30, 2009
GM to boost Ellesmere Port production
GM has announced it will add a third shift at its Ellesmere Port plant as part of the carmaker's major restructuring plans for its European operations.
The carmaker said the consultation process with each individual manufacturing plant in Europe has now begun. This process will continue over the next month to finalise details of the future plan for Opel/Vauxhall across Europe.
Welcome news
The first step in this process sees Ellesmere Port, where the new generation Astra is currently being built, move to a three shift production operation in 2011. This is welcome news for a plant which facead the prospect of job losses.
"To support the launch in 2010 of the new Astra Sports Tourer and to prepare for the third shift introduction in 2011, the plan is for no redundancies as all current labour would need to be utilised to staff the third shift," said a GM statement.
DATED: 30.11.09
FEED: MT
