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

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About 500 factory workers and 140 salaried personnel are affectex bythe five-week shutdown. said in May that productionj would be stopped for thred weeks at the local facility as the automaker reducews inventory by temporarily idling a numbetr ofits plants. That period is being combinedx with theregular two-week planned companywide shutdown that startds on June 29. Spokeswoman Nina Price said that a smalk workforceof “maybe 100” is staying on the job duringg much of the plant’s three-week shutdown. No schedule change at the localk plant has been ordered at this time because of an extensionh of the temporary summertime closures at sevebGM factories, she said.
Thes e locations include the Oshawa, Ont., car plant, and other assemblyt plants at Lordstown, Ohio, Shreveport, La., and Orionn Township - which receive engines from Tonawanda. The latest round of closureas was announced this week and range from one added week at the Oshawa factory to four additional weeks at the Lansingt Grand River plantin Michigan. Most of the locations will go down for three added weeksin July.