tion at its plant in Camaçari, Brazil, where it produces the Ka and EcoSport models, as well as engines.  Ford’s other engine factory in Taubaté, Brazil will return to work the following week, on July 1. Both plants will start with one shift and accelerate production gradually, while employees who can do their job remotely will continue to do so. The return date of the Troller plant in Horizonte, Brazil, which also belongs to Ford, has not y...

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dustry. On March 20, Tesla Gigafactory Berlin workers voted to give IG Metall the largest number of representatives (16) in the new 39-person works council, though not a majority. 39.4% of the workforce voted for the union’s candidates, followed in second place with 35.9% by the list of employees who dominated the previous works council. IG Metall says that it will push for hiring more temporary workers, longer cycle times on the assembly lines...

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14, eight months after its Israeli partner Better Place declared itself bankrupt in May, 2013. About 5,400 workers at Oyak Renault's factory in Bursa, Turkey, halted production activities demanding a wage increase during their midnight shift on May 14.  On the morning of May 15, over 1,500 workers who usually work the following 12-8 A.M. shift did not clock in and, instead, went on strike in the factory's courtyard. The factory produces 1,400 ca...

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approximately 5,000 in Kentucky. On April 25, officials broke ground on the ECTC BlueOval SK Training Center in Glendale, Kentucky. The all-new BlueOval SK Battery Park manufacturing campus that will produce batteries for future Ford and Lincoln vehicles beginning in 2025 will employ 5,000 people, who will receive training at center, which is scheduled for completion in spring 2024. On June 22, the head of the U.S. Energy Department's Loan Progr...

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contract. Like GM's other facilities, those employed at Ultium Cells Ohio will automatically get an 11% increase in the first year of the contract, putting their pay at USD 35 an hour. A UAW National GM council vote is expected later this week, and then send it local leaders to discuss with members who will then vote to approve or reject. As of midday November 15, the tentative contract between the UAW and General Motors appears to be trending to...

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factory in Hungary On April 4, BYD Electric Bus and Truck Hungary Kft., the company’s first fully-owned bus plant in Europe, was officially opened in the northern Hungarian town of Komarom. BYD will invest a total of EUR 20 million in the plant by 2018. The plant will eventually employ 300 people who will assemble up to 400 electric buses annually on two shifts. Initial output will be electric buses and coaches but other products will follow, i...

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with Mack also scheduled to take a week off starting May 19. The Windsor Assembly Plant resumes production for two shifts on April 22 following the last two weeks off. "As a result, more than half of the employees from Sterling Stamping, Indiana Transmission, Kokomo Transmission and Kokomo Casting who were put on temporary layoff when production was paused the week of April 7 also will return to work to support the Windsor operations," the compa...

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nt will be down beginning April 14, 2025. The plant is expected to resume normal production in early May" said spokesperson Jodi Tinson. The engines are made at a plant in Saltillo, Mexico, but the shortage problem began before Trump's tariffs began taking effect, according to a UAW representative, who also noted that the Warren Truck plant, which operates on a single production shift, has been experiencing slow orders of the Wagoneer and Grand W...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/07/02

nam with launch of Karoq and Kodiaq SUVs; business plans unveiled Skoda Auto Volkswagen India inaugurates Parts Expedition Centre in Pune for exports to ASEAN Region On January 19, the Vietnamese Prime Minister, during his official visit to the Czech Republic, met with the CEO of Skoda Auto Global, who revealed that the new plant in Viet Hung Industrial Park, Ha Long, Quang Ninh, is expected to be completed in Q1/2025. The plant's first 2 CKD mod...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/07/01

ormal. including overtime, starting the week of November 21 with parts supplies assured. Toyota is offering an early retirement program to about 2,000 workers in the U.S. About 1,600 of them will be workers at its Kentucky plant, which started its operations in 1988. A massive retirement of workers who will reach their 25-year tenure is expected. While Toyota offers the early retirement plan to workers who will have at least 22 years with the com...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/30

is (OH 1626 L and OH 1626 S), relocated from PT Inchcape Indomobil Manufacturing Indonesia in Bogor.  Announced on June 26, GWM Indonesia has officially launched the ORA 03 EV with an early bird offer brings the price down to IDR 369 million, valid until GIIAS 2025 concludes on August 3. Customers who place their orders now can expect delivery around August. Initially imported from Thailand, the ORA 03 is set to be assembled locally at the Inchc...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/27

ist” of enterprises for work resumption, but only a small number of workers could return to their posts. Companies required their workers to get back to work, but the communities they live in refused to cooperate. In consequence, only a small number of workers returned to the posts. Those workers who have entered the factories are also required to live onsite for “closed-loop production”. Currently, logistics can only enter Shanghai, but ca...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/27

er (RTO) in Kragujevac (Serbia) saving approximately 16,000 MWh and 1,000 tons of CO2-equivalent. On June 22, workers from the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Serbia plant in Kragujevac blocked a key bridge and motorway during a protest in Belgrade, saying they wanted better severance deals for employees who are to lose their jobs or get transferred to other factories in Europe. Stellantis recently announced it will temporarily shut down pending retool...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/26

ist” of enterprises for work resumption, but only a small number of workers could return to their posts. Companies required their workers to get back to work, but the communities they live in refused to cooperate. In consequence, only a small number of workers returned to the posts. Those workers who have entered the factories are also required to live onsite for “closed-loop production”. Currently, logistics can only enter Shanghai, but ca...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/25

ar is set to be unveiled on April 10, 2024, at an event in Milan, Italy. The development strategies are coordinated by the Italian team of Alfa Romeo engineers at the Balocco Proving Ground, where drivers can test out on the track the requirements and targets set by Alfa Romeo's dynamic engineers, who are responsible for validating the project. On September 4, Jeep announced a major milestone with the 100,000th Jeep Avenger produced at the Tychy...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/25

ve Cells Company (ACC) announced that it has renewed its partnership with Equans France. The plant's first block was launched in May 2023 which produced a capacity of 13 GWh. ACC is currently piloting the construction of a new unit to double its production capacity by 2026. The Equans France teams, who are already leading the consortium in charge of the anhydrous rooms with IAQ for the first block, are fully mobilised to meet this new challenge a...

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built in Springhill, Tennessee, on the GM BEV3 platform. GM says deliveries of the Lyriq Luxury RWD will begin in fall 2022, while Lyriq Luxury AWD deliveries will commence in early 2023. Cadillac is still accepting pre-orders for the Lyriq, however with the 2023 model year now sold out, customers who sign up will likely receive a 2024 model year Lyriq at a later date. In its February 1 Q4 2021 earnings report, General Motors confirmed that it e...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/25

, at the former Volkswagen plant in Kaluga which was acquired by AVILON company. A job fair is also organized at the plant on August 31, 2023, which will be attended by representatives of the AVILON company, as well as representatives of the automakers of the GAZ, HAVAL, and KAMAZ groups. Employees who wish to take vacancies at these enterprises will have their employment contracts with AGR LLC who is the current owner of the former Volkswagen Ka...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/24

t. Petersburg plant was shut down from March 1 to 5, 2022 due to component shortage. On December 19, multiple sources reported that Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Rus LLC has started laying off employees of the St. Petersburg plant. Hyundai said that it will fulfill all social obligations to employees who will be affected, including the payment of severance pay for parties who have left by agreement. The Hyundai plant in St. Petersburg has been idle...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/24

on center, on Monday morning, started without any complications. The carmaker is now producing in the standard mode. The positivity rate at the point of purchase of the Trnava carmaker Groupe PSA Slovakia during the weekend nationwide testing of COVID reached 0.25%. Out of a total of 1587 employees who used the opportunity to test at the carmaker's Health Center, only four employees had a positive result. The carmaker has been applying strict hyg...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/06/24