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GM Wentzville Plant To Restart Monday

Workers at the Wentzville General Motors plant are going back to work starting Monday.

May 8, 2008, 9:53 AM CDT

St. Louis — Workers at the Wentzville General Motors plant are going back to work starting Monday.

The plant will restart after being shut down since March 6th due to a parts shortage caused by a strike at a supplier, American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. in Detroit.

First-shift employees are due back at work Monday. Third-shift parts stamping workers return May 18. Second shift assembly workers return May 19.

GM spokesman Dan Flores said the company found another source for the parts, but declined to elaborate.

United Auto Workers Local 2250 chairman Bill Schiltz said union leaders are concerned about where those parts are coming from.

GM makes full-size vans at Wentzville, and employs about 2,300 UAW workers there.

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