The 5.4 million-square-foot Chrysler Technology Center east of I-75 and north of M-59 is amongst 18 amenities the automaker included in a proposal final Thursday to the UAW, in line with a report from CNBC, which mentioned the corporate is required to inform the UAW of any attainable gross sales or closures of amenities the place a union member works. Other Michigan vegetation probably on the chopping block embrace the Trenton Engine Complex and Mount Elliott Tool & Die in Detroit, the report mentioned.
Like many workplace buildings round city — together with General Motors’ Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit — the hulking advanced in Auburn Hills has sat underutilized for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic ushered within the work-from-home period for a lot of corporations. Stellantis has maintained a versatile hybrid work method whilst another corporations have requested staff to return to the workplace full or half time.
Stellantis COO Mark Stewart, who’s overseeing talks with the UAW, instructed WWJ-AM (950) on Tuesday that the corporate has a “series of facilities that we were looking to downsize or reconfigure.”
“Here in Auburn Hills, this is our North American headquarters. It will be our North American headquarters,” Stewart instructed the radio station. “But like everyone in a hybrid working environment and looking at our overall environment across the region and specifically in the U.S., we have a lot of the building here in Auburn hills that we are not utilizing today. We’re looking at other use cases for that.”
He added that the corporate just isn’t leaving the headquarters advanced “in any shape, form or fashion, but the areas we’re not using, we’re looking at some different repurposing for those.”
The UAW launched a strike Friday on Ford Motor Co.’s Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Stellantis NV’s Toledo Assembly Complex simply throughout the Ohio border and General Motors Co.’s Wentzville Assembly plant close to St. Louis. UAW President Shawn Fain mentioned Monday that the strike would broaden this Friday if no progress is made in negotiations with the Detroit 3 automakers.
Source: www.autonews.com