General Motors plans to boost production at the Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana in response to the newly imposed Trump tariffs.
GM plans Indiana plant production boost
The plan was confirmed to CNBC.com in a statement.
“General Motors will be making operational adjustments at Fort Wayne Assembly, including hiring temporary employees, to support current manufacturing and business needs. We continuously update and revise production schedules as part of our standard process of evaluating and aligning to manage vehicle inventory.”
GM did not mention the 25% Trump tariffs that took effect earlier in the day.
This increase in workers is in addition to the supplemental workers GM said it was already hiring to support summer breaks and time off for their regular employees according to CNBC.
The Fort Wayne, Indiana plant builds the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 at the Indiana plant. Those half-ton trucks are also built at the Flint, Michigan plant with some production also at the Silao, Mexico and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Stellantis has decided on a different approach and has paused production at two plants with one in Canada and another in Mexico. They are also laying off thousands of employees.
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And so it begins.
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