The potential closure of five plants, including two in Michigan, are part of a restructuring announcement by General Motors. The plants impacted include the Hamtramck Assembly Plant in Detroit and Warren Transmissions Operations in Warren. Kristen Dzichzek with the Center for Automotive Research told Michigan News Network the workers in those plants will have other job opportunities.
“There are provisions in the UAW contract that allow them to transfer to other plants that are operating,” Dzichzek said. “We have a number of plants in Michigan that are operating three shift operations and busting at the seams, and so I would expect that many of them may find an ability to transfer to another plant.”
About 1,500 workers are at Hamtramck Assembly, and about 335 workers are based at the Warren plant.
