Reply #3: Wisconsin plant escapes GM cuts [View All]

[Viking12]

General Motors' oldest plant - in Janesville, Wis. - was spared in a plan to eliminate 30,000 jobs and close nine assembly, stamping and powertrain plants by 2008.

But the GM plant in Janesville, Wis., which employs more than 3,800 workers — 5,100 including GM suppliers — will remain open. The plant's $225 million payroll accounts for more than 6 percent of local wages.

The 86-year-old Janesville assembly plant has survived the Depression, a world war, and GM's major layoffs in the 1980s.

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