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GM Leaving Pontiac Warehouse Site

PONTIAC, MI-General Motors says it's moving more work to Warren, leaving a facility in Pontiac empty. The building has been used by GM as a warehouse for about 15 years.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on March 01, 2004

PONTIAC, MI-General Motors Corp. will vacate the old Fisher Body plant facing Baldwin on the city’s north side as part of a plan to re-organize its pre-production engineering operations.The move will affect about 100 employees who work in that old plant, which GM converted into a warehouse and storage area in the late 1980s, United Auto Worker officials say.

The workers now assigned to Plant 17 will have the right to transfer as the work and material is moved to GM’s Technical Center in Warren, says Charlie Tiedeman, president of UAW Local 653.The move should be completed by the second quarter of 2005, with the prototypes and other material now stored in the old Fisher Body plant shifted to Warren, according to the timetable laid out in January when GM gave final approval to the consolidation of the engineering related functions at the refurbished tech center in Warren.

A GM document explaining the underlying rationale for the move noted that the planned consolidation will help GM eliminate more than 1.2 million sf and speed up delivery times and trim inventories. The final move also will complete GM’s 10-year transition to one Vehicle Engineering Center, the GM document notes.

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