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Source: Talking Points Memo
Buoyed by record monthly sales of its Chevy Volt hybrid electric plug-in car in March, General Motors will resume production of the Volt at the Detroit Hamtramck plant one week early, the United Auto Workers told TPM on Tuesday night. Theyre adding a week of production back in, said Don LaForest, the chairman of the UAWs bargaining committee at the Detroit Hamtramck plant, where the Volt is manufactured, in a phone interview.
GM in early March startled observers by announcing a temporary hold on Volt production scheduled for five weeks, from March 19 to April 23, during which time employees would be temporarily laid-off but receive SUB pay. At the time, GM and the UAW told TPM that hold was totally normal, and put in place to re-align supply of the Volt with demand, following sluggish sales in January at just 603 units. But now, thanks to the GMs news on Monday that the Volt sold a record 2,289 units in March, employees will be coming back to work a week early.
More to the point, LaForest said UAW workers remained confident in the Volts propensity for success, and that many at the plant were bewildered and angered by the verbal attacks on the American-made car by Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Romney on Tuesday and earlier, Newt Gingrich.
Anybody whos been in a Volt knows its not a boondoggle, they know its for real, LaForest told TPM. I dont think Newt or Mitt have said a single negative thing about the Nissan Leaf, (the Volts Japanese competitor).
Theyre attacking our car to get at the President, LaForest told TPM. But our car is going to change the way America does business. Its a breath of fresh air.
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The Republicans having been working so hard at trying to make America fail, this news must hurt.