Sal Collaziano
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Two years ago, the Chevrolet Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky housed 1,000 workers - that number is now down to 400. In order to align production with demand, those workers that remain will reportedly be getting much more time off as General Motors is idling the plant for two weeks every month for the next four months.
The pace of production is also being reset, from 11 cars an hour down to eight. Chevrolet sold half as many Corvettes in February of 2009 as it did the year previously, and sales are down 54% this year, from 4,086 for the first two months of 2008 versus 1,869 in 2009 over the same period. As the Bowling Green UAW local secretary said, the rest of them "are just worried if we will be here next week." Hat tip to Alex
Gallery: 2008 Chevy Corvette Competition
Gallery: Tour of Corvette's Bowling Green Assembly Plant
[Source: Courier-Journal]REPORT: Slow Corvette sales to result in plant shutdowns through July originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Two years ago, the Chevrolet Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky housed 1,000 workers - that number is now down to 400. In order to align production with demand, those workers that remain will reportedly be getting much more time off as General Motors is idling the plant for two weeks every month for the next four months.
The pace of production is also being reset, from 11 cars an hour down to eight. Chevrolet sold half as many Corvettes in February of 2009 as it did the year previously, and sales are down 54% this year, from 4,086 for the first two months of 2008 versus 1,869 in 2009 over the same period. As the Bowling Green UAW local secretary said, the rest of them "are just worried if we will be here next week." Hat tip to Alex
Gallery: 2008 Chevy Corvette Competition
Gallery: Tour of Corvette's Bowling Green Assembly Plant
[Source: Courier-Journal]REPORT: Slow Corvette sales to result in plant shutdowns through July originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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