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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (46416)	6/19/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 58727

FOCUS-GM strike toll climbs to more than 108,000 workers biz.yahoo.com "Shuttered on Friday was the Lordstown, Ohio, facility, GM's largest single assembly plant in North America, where it builds the Pontiac Sunfire and Chevrolet Cavalier cars. About 5,000 workers were sent home due to parts shortages from the striking Flint Metal Center and Delphi East components plant." biz.yahoo.com "DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors (NYSE:GM - news)' North American production was reduced to a trickle Friday after strikes caused the closure of the automaker's biggest U.S. assembly plant and a truck plant in Mexico. Hopes for a quick settlement were dim. Nearly 115,000 GM workers across the continent faced the prospect of weeks without paychecks as talks to end walkouts at two Michigan parts plants recessed with no hint of progress. The negotiations were to resume Saturday. The strikes involving about 9,200 workers in Flint, Mich., have cut off the supply of key parts and resulted in about 105,500 layoffs at GM assembly and component plants in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Thousands of other workers for independent suppliers also have been idled... "GM said it laid off 5,000 workers at its big Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant and another 2,455 at its Silao, Mexico, plant, which makes full-size Chevrolet and GMC sport utility vehicles. In all, 23 GM assembly lines have been closed or virtually idled. The only plants still producing Friday were the Saturn small-car plant in Tennessee, the Chevrolet Corvette plant in Kentucky, the factory that makes Chevy Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds in Canada, and two plants in Mexico... [a sports-car buff conspiracy? :-)))] Once the other Mexican plants are down, probably this weekend, GM's North American production will be about 2,800 vehicles a day. That compares with the average daily production in June 1997 of 22,548 a day, for an 88 percent decline, according to Ward's Automotive Reports. At that point, the only plant producing in any significant volume will be Saturn in Spring Hill, Tenn."