GM. The decision by General Motors (GM) to locate the building of the new Astra at its Ellesmere Port factory on Merseyside - rather than at a German plant – has secured 2,100 jobs at the Merseyside plant and will create another 700 in supply chain companies. The company will invest £125m and the new model will be go into production from 2015.
ction by the British carmaker’s staff is a threat to planned investments. The resistance from the German carmaker’s British employees helped them gain major wage increases, with nothing in return. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 120329)
GM. The decision by General Motors (GM) to locate the building of the new Astra at its Ellesmere Port factory on Merseyside – rather than a
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