GM India promotes 383 workers of its Gujarat plant

In an attempt to keep its workers happy, General Motors India has promoted 383 workers of its Halol plant in Vadodra, Gujarat recently. Meanwhile, the plant has also reportedly produced 1908 unit o

Published On Jun 18, 2011 13:41 IST

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f Chevrolet Tavera in May which is a record production of the utility vehicle in the history of GM India. In addition to the Halol plant, GM India also has a production facility at Talegaon Dabhade in Maharashtra besides a marketing office in Gurgaon. Observing the range of cars, GM India is the 5th largest automobile manufacturing company in India after Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata Motors and Mahindra.

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Notably, production was hit at General Motor’s Halol plant early this year when employees went on strike for six weeks. The current promotions are seen as a keep happy mechanism to dissuade the workers from going on strike and to create a positive environment at the plant. In all, there are around 900 permanent workers in addition to few hundred contractual workers. The permanent workers are involved in production while the contractual workers do the housekeeping, material handling work at the plant, said sources. In an interview, P Balendran, vice-president, corporate affairs GM India reportedly said that the company is one of the highest payers and tries that workers have no complaints. Inter-union rivalry was primary reason behind the strike at Halol plant, he added.

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It is reported that currently the plant is working in full swing and it would produce the light commercial vehicle in collaboration with Shanghai Automotive Industries Corporation soon. The trial production of the LCV is expected to begin in October. GM India offers Chevrolet cars in India including Chevrolet Aveo, Chevrolet Aveo U-VA, Chevrolet Beat, Chevrolet Captiva, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Optra Magnum, Chevrolet Spark, Chevrolet Spark LPG, Chevrolet Tavera, and Chevrolet Tavera Neo.

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