GM s Holden to lay-off 600 workers

In the news: General Motors GM & 39; s Australian unit had announced last Monday that he would receive 15% of the workforce at its Elizabeth plant in South Australia state by the end of April. Holden GM will be limited voluntary redundancy belts to 600 workers who will be included in the 15% work cut GM would execute Australia Subcommittee at its plant, north of Adelaide. This is the result of improved efficiency of its Automated Assembly, which allows the car maker to maintain production with less workers.
but According to some analysts, the workers cut through GM Australian unit was due to the decline in the sales of locally built Holden for the Australian Marine Brigadier group of consumers also choose smaller, more fuel efficiency vehicles.
according Rod Ken Holden Executive Director of the manufacturing processes in an interview with reporters in Adelaide, " If Holden is to remain as one of the worlds most competitive and flexible plants and we need to be as effective as possible. At this stage we have more resources we need to achieve this. " Holden announced job cuts at a meeting attended by both blue and white Collar workers. The auto makers gave the workers until March 21 to decide whether to accept redundancies and retraining offered by the FTA automaker.
keane also added that any posts will be lost in Melbourne Holden engine plant. It should be noted that Holden already laid off 1400 jobs at its Elizabeth plant in August than in 2005. Holden currently has 4050 staff will be reduced further by workers, which led to the shedding 600 to 3450 workers at the plant. Kane also said that it is not guaranteed if there will be no more job cuts in the future. " You can not exclude anything in this business, and it is clear that changes in the market. We can never guarantee what the future holds. "
the decision to spare the post also because of the company& 39;s decision to end production of the older marine Brigadier vz a focus on the models involved in the production of its new session, which according to the car makers much easier to make.
for past years Holden has invested 532 million dollars in the factory and Holden, which he described as one of the world& 39;s most flexible and efficient plants. It is expected that production will be reduced output after unemployment from the current 620 cars to 520 cars a day and will return to a maximum of $ 620 a car by October. Ken also said they expected to produce 145000 car for this year.
the layoffs will surely humiliate Federal Industry, Tourism and Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane even those who went to Detroit earlier this year only to the report of the General Motors of the world and the largest makers produced cars of the quality of GM --- fuel pumps and Ford Motor Company that Australia expects more in return for a value of 7.3 billion cars competition and investment scheme that would support the industry during 2015. In a statement made by Macfarlane last Monday, " globally, the auto industry is going through difficult times and the Australian industry is not immune from this. Holden is the recognition and this makes it difficult business decisions need to be made to maintain competitiveness in a difficult environment. "
similarly the unemployment of 600 workers will certainly detrimental to the Federal Liberal national coalition government during the elections held in South Australia state, where Holden is currently the largest employer in the private sector. Elizabeth factory located in the headquarters of the Wakefield held with 0.7%, while the margin most of the workers live in a nearby factory makin electorate held by a margin of 1%. From Australia car industry employs about 70000 workers, which represents about 0.8 per cent of the total labour force in Australia beginning in August of 2006.



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