Monday, 5 March 2012

GM PROFITS FROM LABOR PEACE.(BUSINESS)

Byline: JUSTIN HYDE Associated Press

PONTIAC, Mich. -- The $560 million factory that General Motors Corp. will build in Lansing isn't just another assembly plant, but a dissertation on six years of lessons learned the hard way.

The Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant, plans for which were to be unveiled today, is the first all-new factory built by GM in the United States since the Saturn complex near Spring Hill, Tenn., in 1986.

It's also GM's attempt to shed its reputation for bloated, old-school manufacturing and prove it can build vehicles efficiently.

``The concepts you have to have to compete are embedded in this plant,'' said Donald …

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