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GM is Reshuffling its Workforce to Meet Production Demand

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GM’s trucks and SUVs are currently in high demand
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the fact that auto assembly lines are running at all is a small miracle. After a tough spring, many plants have begun the slow process of safely resuming production. However, it’s difficult to produce vehicles when there are few workers available to make that production happen. This is the problem that General Motors is currently facing. While assembly lines may be running, the workforce at key plants is lacking. In order to meet production demand, GM has instituted a new plan to get things back on track.


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How GM will meet production demand

As of right now, trucks and SUVs are the automaker’s biggest sellers. At the beginning of the pandemic, hundreds of GM plant workers were laid off, many of them at smaller plants that make lower-demand vehicles. But truck and SUV-producing plants don’t have enough workers; many are on leave for COVID-19-related reasons.

In order to meet production demand at larger plants, GM is offering to transfer some of these laid-off workers from smaller plants.

This plan has not only allowed GM to hit most of its daily manufacturing quotas but has kept more GM workers employed during this difficult time. So far, this reshuffling has allowed plants like the one in Flint, Michigan, to run at full capacity.


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GM aims to staff three shifts at its plants in Flint; Arlington, Texas; and Fort Wayne, Indiana. The automaker hopes to have these skilled workers transferred to their new plants starting in August.