Stellantis pulls plug on Belvidere battery plant, parts hub. Truck production still coming

The $4.8 cardinal woody betwixt United Auto Workers and Stellantis to unfastened an assembly plant, parts organisation halfway and artillery works successful Belvidere isn't going to happen, the Detriot Free Press reported Friday.

"Kevin Gotinsky, caput of the union’s Stellantis department, said this week, according to Automotive News, that successful regards to Belvidere, the automaker would lone beryllium moving guardant with accumulation of a midsize motortruck successful 2027 and not the summation of a joint-venture artillery works and Mopar parts organisation installation arsenic antecedently expected," the Free Press reported.

The astir $5 cardinal deal was archetypal announced successful autumn 2023. It progressive investing $100 cardinal to crook the existing Belvidere Assembly Plant into a parts organisation center, gathering a $3.2 cardinal artillery accumulation installation and a $1.5 cardinal installation to nutrient a mid-sized truck.

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The national had antecedently threatened a nationalist strike, saying Stellantis wasn’t surviving up to its concern commitments successful Belvidere, Illinois, and Detroit, the Free Press reported, but the national said earlier this twelvemonth that with renewed commitments to operations successful some cities by the company’s caller enactment it was withdrawing its grievances.

Stellantis has stuck with its pledge reopen the Belvidere plant, saying it intends to operate 2 shifts determination with 1,500 employees.

Rockford country national leaders indicated successful March that the afloat $5 cardinal Belvidere plan, which played a large relation successful the settling of the 2023 Stand Up Strike, appeared to beryllium connected shaky ground.

The institution had said successful January that those plans were being re-evaluated due to the fact that of marketplace conditions.

UAW Local 1268 President Matt Frantzen said astatine the clip determination did not look to beryllium capable enactment for a onslaught to clasp the institution accountable for its erstwhile commitments.

The Belvidere Assembly Plant has been idled since February 2023. Workers determination utilized to marque the Jeep Cherokee.

Corina Curry is the exertion of the Rockford Register Star.

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