I just found a report, 8 hours old, that the GM plant in Lordstown is still working despite the previous reports that the plant would run out of parts sometime Tuesday, today. From the ABC 33 newsroom:

The official line from General Motors is it remains "business as usual" for the Lordstown complex..despite a lingering strike by autoworkers with American Axel in Detroit..which enters its 8th week tomorrow...

While GM spokesman Dan Flores admits the walkout is having an impact on GM's production, he stops short of suggesting the struggling automaker will step-in to get the strike resolved, telling First News "fundamentally, this is a labor dispute between American Axel and the UAW."

Meantime, local union leaders are trying to keep the rumors and speculation of a plant shutdown from getting out of control. UAW Local 1112 President Jim Graham says that unless management tells his members to stay home, "we're working."

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Looks like it's official as of the 11th that Tuesday may see the end of opearations at the Lordstown plant until the American Axle strike is over and parts are being made and sent again. From the Mahoning County Tribune Chronicle

Dave Green, president of United Auto Workers Local 1714 of the Lordstown Metal Center plant, said management told him Thursday afternoon the estimate for running out of a brake part had been moved to Tuesday from the previous estimate of April 18.

Green said he’s scheduled to meet management at 9 a.m. today to get more details about how the situation may develop.

The Metal Center stamps and fabricates steel body parts for the small cars built at the next-door assembly plant. Some of the plant’s 1,000 hourly workers may stay on the job to make parts to bring inventory levels up to required levels, Green noted.

A UAW Local 1112 handout at that plant on Monday stated the factory was second in priority to GM’s Fairfax, Kan., plant for closure if the strike at American Axle continues. No update on the assembly outlook was available Thursday.

Anyone taking bets on when Dick Dauch is going to take his head out of his ass and bargain in good faith?

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