Jobs Bank - USA - GM put to test in Okla.
Slipping sales of TrailBlazer, Envoy shut plant, but automaker will still foot bill for paychecks
Oklahoma,USA -The Detroit News, by Bill Vlasic -21 Feb 2006: -- They punched out Monday after the last TrailBlazer came off the line, the first casualties of General Motors Corp.'s plan to slash 30,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs by 2008... After 27 years and nearly 6 million vehicles, one of GM's most stalwart assembly plants had gone silent, possibly forever... But its 2,200 hourly workers will be back next week, not to build cars or trucks in Oklahoma City but to clock in as the newest members of GM's "jobs bank" for surplus union labor... It is believed to be the first time the work force of an entire assembly plant has been dropped in the jobs bank, where members of the United Auto Workers continue receiving their $31-an-hour pay and full benefits -- even after their work has left the building...
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