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• Exclusive: Automotive CEO on how North Carolina can win assembly plant
  
  If North Carolina plays its cards right, electric vehicles could soon come off a local assembly line.
  Lauren Ohnesorge.  American City Business Journals.  Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:13:26 +0000.
• Opioid Overdose Deaths Linked To Auto Assembly Plant Closures, Study Finds
  
  In a new study, researchers found that closing of local automotive assembly plants may be one of the factors that has led to increases in deaths from opioid overdose.
  By Robert Glatter, Md, Contributor.  Forbes.  Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:13:00 +0000.
• UAW member killed by vehicle while picketing against GM in Tennessee
  
  A United Auto Workers member was struck and killed while picketing Tuesday outside a General Motors assembly plant in Tennessee, police said.
  CNBC.  Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:31 GMT.
• Windsor judge finds Unifor leaders in contempt for ongoing Nemak strike
  
  A Windsor judge has found four Unifor leaders in contempt for strikes that have taken place outside Nemak's west Windsor auto parts assembly plant since Labour Day.
  CBC News.  Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:46:04 EDT.
• Top 500 Sourcebook: Automotive Manufacturing Investments Up
  
  Fiat Chrysler has begun construction on a $1.6-billion assembly plant on the site of its existing Mack Avenue Engine Plant in Detroit.
  Engineering News-Record.  Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:20:00 -0400.
• Warner Music turns former Ford assembly plant into Arts District music factory
  
  Employees of Warner Music Group Inc. for the last several weeks have been toiling in the same red brick building where men who could have been their great-grandfathers put together shiny black automobiles. ...
  Roger Vincent.  Los Angeles Times.  Sun, 7 Apr 2019 05:00:00 PDT.
• Last car to roll off assembly line today at Ohio GM plant
  
  A sprawling General Motors assembly plant near Youngstown will be idled Wednesday after more than 50 years producing cars and other vehicles, a move that will eliminate nearly 1,700 hourly positions by months' end. ...
  Mark Gillispie and Tom Krisher.  Chicago Tribune.  Wed, 6 Mar 2019 05:50:00 PST.
• WATCH: Fiat Chrysler to add hundreds of job in Michigan
  
  The $4.5 billion announcement plan will include building a new auto assembly plant in Detroit for a workforce of about 6,500 people.
  ABC News.  Wed, 27 Feb 2019 01:29:43 -0500.
• Ford to Exit Heavy-Truck Business in South America
  
  The auto maker intends to stop making heavy trucks in Latin America and end production at an assembly plant in Brazil this year.
  Wall Street Journal.  Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:38:26 EST.
• GM to respond by January 7 to Canada union efforts to save plant
  
  General Motors Co will respond by Jan. 7 to a Canadian union's proposals for keeping an Ontario auto assembly plant open, the head of Canada's largest private sector union said on Thursday.
  Reuters.  Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:33:54 -0500.

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