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...General Motors has scheduled about 60 non-working days at Opel-Vauxhall’s plant in Zaragoza, Spain, through to the end of 2012 and about 20 in Eisenach, Germany, to the end of this year....
...Nick Reilly, who heads GM in Europe, said that the US carmaker had scheduled three non-working days at its plant in Gliwithanskce, Poland and “four or five” at its factory in Zaragoza, Spain....
...The carmaker produces its small Corsa model at both plants and its Meriva people carrier in Zaragoza. The car industry is one of the most exposed of any to the crisis in Japan....
...and business schools are introducing supply chain programmes to fill the gap, including the London Business School (LBS) and Cranfield School of Management in the UK, MIT in the US, and the University of Zaragoza...
...Workers at Opel’s plant in Zaragoza, Spain, had threatened a series of one-day strikes this week after Magna outlined plans to move a portion of output from there to its plant in Eisenach, Germany....
...Magna agreed to reduce the number of job cuts at Opel’s plant at Figueruelas, near Zaragoza, to 900, from an already-reduced 1,350....
...Poland, Austria and Hungary are also expected to contribute, as will Spain if it secures the agreement it is seeking on the future of the Zaragoza plant....
...This is a veiled reference to Opel’s plant in Zaragoza, northern Spain, which is among the most efficient of GM’s European operations, say internal documents seen by the FT....
...Rüsselsheim in Germany, Opel’s hometown, took nearly 10 hours longer to assemble a car than the company’s main UK car plant in Ellesmere Port, and nearly 14 hours longer than the carmaker’s factory in Zaragoza...
...However, the Canadian company on Tuesday remained locked in talks with workers’ representatives at GM’s Zaragoza plant in Spain and politicians including Miguel Sebastián, industry minister, over plans to...
...Elena Salgado, Spain’s economy minister and deputy prime minister, said any plan for Opel must recognise that its plant in Zaragoza was GM’s most productive in Europe....
...Opel’s Spanish union has fought Magna’s plan to shift a production line from its plant in Zaragoza to Eisenach in Germany....
...However, Magna was still in talks on Tuesday with the works council of its plant in Zaragoza, Spain, and politicians including Miguel Sebastián, industry minister, over the company’s plans to move some production...
...But government officials in Madrid say there is “some resentment” among workers at Opel’s Zaragoza factory about an apparent lack of solidarity from their German counterparts....
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