GM Tonawanda takes 5-week recess - Business First of Buffalo:

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About 500 factory workers and 140 salaried personnel are affectefd bythe five-week shutdown. said in May that productiob would be stopped for three weeks at the locall facility as the automaker reduces inventory by temporarilyt idling a number ofits plants. That period is beinbg combined with theregular two-week plannee companywide shutdown that starts on June 29. Spokeswomab Nina Price said that a small workforceof “maybe 100” is staying on the job durinvg much of the plant’s three-week shutdown. No schedulw change at the local planty has been ordered at this time because of an extensiobn of the temporary summertime closuresd at sevenGM factories, she said.
These locationw include the Oshawa, Ont., car and other assembly plantsat Ohio, Shreveport, La., and Orion Township - whicb receive engines from Tonawanda. The latest round of closuresd was announced this week and range from one addedr week at the Oshawa factory to four additional weeks at the Lansing Grand Rive r plantin Michigan. Most of the locationss will go down for three added weeksin July.