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For GM in Lansing, the future is now

Grand River Assembly heralds a new chapter for automaker, city
By Andy Henion
Lansing State Journal

After nearly a century of building cars in Lansing, General Motors Corp. begins a high-stakes era next month as the rst showroom-ready Cadillac CTS rolls out of the automakers new downtown plant. For the city, the Lansing Grand River Assembly factory will preserve 1,500 of the 6,500 high-paying auto jobs that are threatened with the expected closing of GMs local small-car plants in 2004 or 2005. For GM, the $560 million complex is its rst U.S. car plant in 15 years and uses fewer workers and more robots to battle its hard-charging Japanese and European competitors. And for Cadillac, the radically designed vehicles that will be built at Lansing Grand River could save or sink the struggling luxury division. The rst, the CTS, goes on sale in January. If were not successful with Cadillac, General Motors cant be successful, said Ron Zarrella, GMs North American president. And were entrusting that to the work force in the Lansing area. GM is mid-Michigans largest private employer with more than 11,000 workers in ve plants and a parts warehouse. The worlds No. 1 automaker has slashed both its local and national work force in half in the past 25 years in an effort to become more efcient. GM recently announced the end of its Lansing-founded Oldsmobile division and closed a local engine factory that once employed 1,600. But in addition to the Cadillac plant, GM says it will open a 2,500-worker assembly plant just west of Lansing in 2005, making mid-Michigan the only community in the world with two new auto plants. That, area ofcials say, will provide job security to a new generation of workers when GM shutters its aging Lansing Car Assembly factories, which build the Pontiac Grand Am, Oldsmobile Alero and Chevrolet Malibu. A GM production job pays more than $21 an hour. Im like anyone else: I want a secure environment to work in and I feel here, in this plant, that I can do that, said Roy Munro, a second-generation assembly line

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GMs future: A truck rolls past the walkway of the new Lansing Grand River Assembly plant. The $560 million complex will build
worker who transferred from the old smallcar plants to the Cadillac factory. Ive got 25 years left (until retirement), so Ive got a ways to go. Munro and his co-workers at the plant each received at least six weeks of hightech training, far more than their predecessors. Besides the CTS, theyll eventually build a new Cadillac sport utility vehicle, the redesigned Seville and as many as two more vehicles, analysts say. Lansing Grand River is GMs rst U.S. plant exible enough to build cars, trucks and SUVs on the Munro same assembly line. That versatility is crucial to meet consumers evolving tastes, experts say. The Grand River plant is probably the most state-of the-art plant in the entire

the Cadillac CTS, and eventually a new Cadillac sport utility vehicle, a revamped Seville and possibly two additional vehicles.
team of politicians and business and education leaders to come up with a recruiting plan for a new factory. He was determined not to let Lansing get slammed like Flint, where GM closed the massive Buick City plant in 1999 after years of labor strife and layoffs. If you ever wanted to be at the epicenter of poverty and economic decay, Flint was it, said Hollister, a former state lawmaker who often visited Flint as a member of a House social services subcommittee. I knew that would happen here if (GM pulled out). GM built its last U.S. assembly plant, a 7,000-worker Saturn complex in rural Spring Hill, Tenn., in 1986-90. The company wanted to build its next plant on undeveloped land as well. But area ofcials convinced GM there was room on 82 industrial acres next to the small-car nal assembly plant just south of Interstate 496, said Jack Davis, a key player on

world for the automotive industry, said David Cole, director of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor. It will, I think, be a model for the future.

Going after GM

The seeds of the new factory were planted in late 1997 when Mark Hogan, a GM vice president, said the near-century-old Lansing Car Assembly plants eventually would close. That stunned leaders of a community that has produced cars since Ransom E. Olds built his rst Oldsmobile here in 1897. GM bought Oldsmobile in 1908 and has employed several generations of local autoworkers since. The company makes more cars in Lansing than in any U.S. city. When Hogan sent out that signal, said Lansing Mayor David Hollister, I took him seriously and personally. Hollister, whose father and father-in-law had worked for GM, formed a regional

the regional team. Davis, a Lansing lawyer and former president of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, said outlying townships also cooperated by not ghting Lansing for the plant and that the city and state stepped up with an attractive incentive package. GM got $174 million in local and state Davis tax breaks for the plant. Cole, the auto analyst, said mid-Michigan established itself as the industry leader on how to attract a new factory. GM ofcials gave approval for the second factory in Delta Township just six months after giving Lansings plant the green light. This is an enormously difcult thing to do in communities, Cole said. Government, labor, education, business they tend to remain separate, but Lansing brought them together. In my discussions with GM, that was the main reason they came here. But some believe area ofcials gave away too much in return for a plant that uses about a third of the workers as a traditional car factory. Many of those jobs are lled by automotive suppliers that pay less than $10 an hour. American jobs are being sold down the river with these plants, said Pat Meyer, who heads the West Olive-based UAW Concern, a nonunion watchdog group for U.S. workers. Were tired of hearing that if you streamline a plant, youve got to get rid of people. But local union ofcials said they did what it took to keep the plant from going to one of many competing cities across the country. United Auto Workers Local 652, which represents the Cadillac workers, is widely known for getting along well with GM management. Youve got to recognize what it takes for job security or someone will eat you for lunch, said Art Baker, Local 652s chief negotiator. In my opinion, the (union) leadership and work force is far-sighted as far as understanding the way new plants are built, and we adjust ourselves to that. Now comes the equally difcult task of trying to save Cadillac, ofcials say. After ruling the luxury market from 1950 to 1998, the division is now getting

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Parts suppliers one offshoot of factorys regional impact

Firms help promote stability of job base, growth of economy
By Tim Martin
Lansing State Journal

Economic impact

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On the job: Courtney Suntken puts wheel weights on a tire at T&WA, one of several local suppliers to GMs Lansing Grand River Assembly. The Charlotte company uses 17-inch wheels (top) to make tire and wheel assemblies that will be delivered directly to the GM assembly line.

Brian Springeld grew up in Michigan, then moved out of state for an automotive career. Now, hes come home. Lansing Grand River Assembly General Motors Corp.s rst new U.S. assembly factory in 15 years gave the Ypsilanti native that opportunity. Springeld doesnt work in the $560 million factory thats opening in downtown Lansing this month. He works for an auto supplier in Charlotte, one of the thousands of support jobs the GM factory is bringing to mid-Michigan. Without that investment from General Motors, I wouldnt be living here, said Springeld, manager at T&WA in Charlotte. And Im not the only one. The impact of that factory will be felt all over this area. The factory will create about 25,000 spinoff jobs statewide by 2004, according to a University of Michigan study. It also will help keep GM as the regions largest taxpayer and charitable contributor. The GM plant itself will have up to 1,500 workers within a few years. But most of those workers wont be new to the company or mid-Michigan. The automaker is moving employees from other Lansing factories into its new showcase. The biggest difference in the economy could come in the factorys spinoff jobs. The U-M study says 25,000 jobs everything from parts suppliers to party stores will be created across the state. About half of those jobs will be in Ingham, Clinton and Eaton counties. The study says that for each dollar given GM in local tax breaks, about $150 in personal income will be generated for GM workers and support employees through 2020. Lansing is in a much better position to have a strong manufacturing base than other places will be, said Joe Billig, an economist with the Michigan Department of Career Development. Thats key to an

n Lansing Grand River Assembly will employ up to 1,500 workers by 2004. Another 25,000 jobs will be created statewide outside of the factory, according to a University of Michigan estimate. n About half the spinoff jobs likely will be within Ingham, Clinton and Eaton counties. n About 30 percent of the spinoff jobs expected in the Lansing region will be manufacturing jobs. The others will be in construction, retail or servicerelated industries. n The factory and its support jobs will generate more than $600 million in personal income by 2005 in the Lansing area. n The Cadillac factory will add about $15.5 million to city of Lansing property tax collections over the next 14 years. n Overall, GM jobs account for about 8 percent of the income in the Lansing region. One of every 21 jobs in the region is with GM. n GM and its United Auto Workers employees contribute more than 25 percent of the $6 million collected each year by the Capital Area United Way.
overall strong economy. GM has more than 11,000 mid-Michigan employees, accounting for one of every 21 jobs in Ingham, Clinton and Eaton counties. GMs employment may rise slightly when the Cadillac factory gets up to full speed. And it could climb again when a plant planned for Delta Township debuts in 2005. But GMs overall impact depends on what the automaker does with its small-car factories, parts of which are a century old. They provide the bulk of GMs employment here, and they may not last much past 2005. GM has been growing smaller in the Lansing region ever since employment peaked at more than 23,000 in 1979. But its auto supplier base has grown larger, and that will continue with the Cadillac factory. The Cadillac plant will be far more reliant on suppliers than traditional GM as-

sembly lines. The jobs typically pay between $9 and $16 an hour, plus benets. At least ve new suppliers plants with more than 500 jobs combined have opened in the Lansing area to serve the GM factory. The biggest, Grand Rapids-based Tower Automotive, could have up to 400 workers at a Delta Township factory. Average pay: about $690 a week, plus benets. The smallest supplier, Kentucky-based T&WA, has 14 employees in Charlotte. The company makes tire and wheel assemblies it will deliver directly to the GM assembly line. T&WA jobs start at $9.50 an hour, with 50-cent pay raises every six months. The company got three applications for every one of its jobs. We had to put up a sign saying we werent taking them anymore, Springeld said. But people have still stopped in. Several other suppliers likely have added jobs to provide parts for Cadillacs. Tec-Mar Distribution, which already had a operation on North Grand River Avenue, opened a 14-employee expansion on Grove Road to sequence parts for the Cadillac plant. At the helm: Jim Zubkus, a former GM plant manager who was instrumental in bringing the Cadillac factory to Lansing so key, in fact, the city named a street after him. The new assembly operations are trying to stay lean, Zubkus said. And when you stay lean, the jobs arent lost to the community. Theyre picked up by suppliers. Local charities also might need suppliers to pick up some of the donations traditionally given by GM workers. GM and its United Auto Workers employees provide about 25 percent of the Capital Area United Ways $6 million annual budget. GM/UAW is by far the largest donor. GM also is still the major player in the city of Lansings budget. The Cadillac factory will bring city government $15.5 million over the next 14 years in property taxes. Overall, GM factories provide about 8 percent of Lansings $2 billion property tax base. The second-biggest Lansing company Jackson National Life Insurance Co. is worth only one-fourth as much in tax revenues. GM is up there all alone when it comes to impact, said Bob Swanson, Lansings nance director. Contact Tim Martin at 377-1061 or tmartin@lsj.com.

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Lansings auto history

n 1897: Ransom E. Olds and Lansing business people start the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. and R.E. Olds build four cars. The Lansing-based manufacturer was the rst company organized specifically to produce cars in quantity. n 1899: Olds second company, Olds Motor Works, moves to Detroit. n 1901: Detroit plants are destroyed by re and Olds returns to Lansing.

The legacy of R.E. Olds and those folks from the early days is certainly still here.
Jim Walkinshaw, Oldsmobile historian

1908 Oldsmobile 6C Curved Dash n 1908: Oldsmobile joins the newly organized General Motors Co. as one of its rst two operating divisions. The other is Buick. n 1927-29: Olds employment skyrockets to 7,000 with 12 new buildings. n 1935: One millionth Olds is built. n 1942-45: Car production stops and Olds workers make 48 million rounds of ammunition, 140,000 aircraft machine guns and tank cannons. n 1950: R.E. Olds dies. n 1958: Olds becomes the nations fourth largest automaker. n 1965: Employment tops 15,000 in Lansing. n 1978: With the dedication of a new Cutlass plant, Oldsmobiles Lansing operations become North Americas largest passenger car assembly complex. n 1979: Engine plant opens in Delta Township. GM employment tops 23,000. n 1984: With the reorganization of GM, Oldsmobile becomes a sales and marketing division in the BuickOldsmobile-Cadillac Group. n 1992: Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac disappears as a GM name. Lansings factories become part of the Lansing Automotive Division, which made its home ofces in the city. n 1996: GM announces Olds will move to Detroit.

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History on wheels: A cavalcade of Oldsmobiles from the 1930s cruises down Michigan Avenue during the 1997 celebration of Oldsmobiles 100th anniversary.

Ransom Eli Olds built his rst vehicle in a Lansing garage in 1897, making Oldsmobile the oldest automotive nameplate in North America.

Automaking tradition rolls on

Grand River Assembly newest addition to citys rich car-building heritage
By Tim Martin
Lansing State Journal

Olds former Lansing headquarters n 1997: Olds celebrates 100th anniversary. n 1998: Olds moves from Lansing to Detroit. n 1999: A GM vice president says the automaker could build two new assembly factories in the Lansing area. n 2000: GM conrms on Jan. 31 that it is building the Lansing Grand River Assembly plant. n 2000: GM announces on June 20 its plans for a Delta Township assembly plant.

One hundred years ago, it was the same story. A ashy new automobile factory on the banks of the Grand River promised an era of economic security for Lansing. The latest technology and assembly techniques piqued the curiosity of the industrial world. And a new chapter in Lansings history, which often reads much like the auto industrys, was written. This months opening of Lansing Grand River Assembly is the latest in a long line of historic automotive events in mid-Michigan. In December 1901, R.E. Olds opened a new auto factory just west of the Grand River site. Literally a stones throw away, said Jim Walkinshaw, an Oldsmobile historian. Thats very telling about what the auto industry has meant to this community. If Ransom Eli Olds hadnt opened his factory a century ago, its doubtful Grand River Assembly would be opening here today. Olds built his rst car in 1897, working in a Lansing garage. The Olds nameplate, later called Oldsmobile, is the oldest in North America. The company later was absorbed by General Motors, which is phasing out the Oldsmobile name with the 2004 model Bravada. But Lansing has since diversied its automotive lineup, and the business should continue to prosper even as the name which started it all fades into history. Grand River Assembly, for example, will build Cadillacs an Olds rival until both became part of GM. Lansing autoworkers now build about 400,000 vehicles a year. R.E. Olds built just four in 1897. Olds didnt like cleaning up after horses on city streets. But he was in the minority then. Skeptics within the Lansing community thought his new horseless carriage business would fail. The town, after all, was built on agriculture and the lumber business. Most gured it would remain that way. Friends even urged Olds wife, Metta, to leave him because they gured hed never be successful. She stuck with Olds, who stuck with the auto industry and proved the town wrong. Olds moved his factory to Detroit in 1899. Thats where Cadillac, Ford and most other U.S. carmakers were setting up shop a century ago. But a re destroyed the Detroit factory in 1901. Olds read about the disaster in a newspaper, traveling home from a family vacation in California. His factory was reduced to rubble. Olds was forced to buy engines from the Dodge brothers and transmissions from Cadillac. Then a group of Lansing businessmen put together a package that convinced Olds to re-

United Auto Workers Local 652 in Lansing. We work together. Olds detoured from the auto industry when the United States entered World War II in the 1940s. The companys wartime work force of 11,000 many of them women entering the work force for the rst time made artillery shells, rockets, cannons, guns and parts for aircraft engines.

Booming business
When the war ended, Americas economy expanded. Lansing and Oldsmobile beneted, as the automaker employed 14,000 workers and built nearly 600,000 vehicles in 1955. The auto industry gave birth to Lansings middle class. By the 1950s, Lansing kids could graduate high school and nd themselves working in auto plants within a few weeks. Allen worked at a Sears & Roebuck tire center for 95 cents an hour after graduating high school. He hired in at Oldsmobile soon afterward for $1.60 an hour. Man, I was rich, Allen said. Within six months, you could afford a car. In a year, you could get married and maybe buy a house. It was a time when you didnt have to go to college, and a lot of us never thought much about going to college. Lansing became North Americas largest passenger car assembly complex in 1978. A year later, with the opening of an engine plant in Delta Township, local employment peaked at 23,000. The Lansing area has only half as many GM employees today. The decline is partly related to changes within GM, but mostly its because of technology that enables cars to be built with far fewer employees than a few decades ago. GM reorganized its automaking divisions in 1984. For the rst time, Lansings GM workers made more than Oldsmobiles adding Buicks and Pontiacs to their production lineup. Oldsmobile became solely a marketing division, often overshadowed by its sister GM divisions and foreign competition. It remained headquartered in Lansing until 1998, when another GM reorganization moved all of its marketing division headquarters to Detroits Renaissance Center. Last year, GM announced it would phase out the Olds nameplate altogether. But Lansing already had been forced to move beyond the name that started its automotive heritage. GM hasnt opened a new vehicle assembly plant in the United States since Saturn made its rst car in Spring Hill, Tenn., more than a decade ago. Mid-Michigan is poised for the newest major investment. The Cadillac factory opening in Lansing this month is the rst of two new factories planned in midMichigan. A Delta Township facility could open in 2005. The fact that Oldsmobile is going away is saddening, Walkinshaw said. But the legacy of R.E. Olds and those folks from the early days is certainly still here. Contact Tim Martin at 377-1061 or tmartin@lsj.com.

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Giving it a look: An Oldsmobile rolls off the assembly line in this undated photo. Olds became the nations fourth largest automaker in 1958.
turn to town. They bought the former Central Michigan Fairgrounds and turned it over to the automaker, who had already demonstrated his company had great promise. Parts of the Olds Motor Works factory still stand as part of a GM small-car assembly plant. The Olds Motor Co. made about 2,500 cars a year in the early 1900s. Its most popular model, the Curved Dash, was a one-cylinder, sevenhorsepower vehicle that weighed 650 pounds and cost $650. R.E. Olds abruptly left the business hed built in 1904 after a disagreement with company shareholders. He started a competitor on Lansings Baker Street, the now-defunct Reo Motor Car Co. The move was typical for the entrepreneur, who was more excited about starting a business than running an established company. Reo actually outsold Olds Motor Works in 1905 and 1906. They made quality cars better than Olds at the time, said Duane Allen, an Olds retiree whose father, George, worked for Reo. R.E. Olds had his way at Reo, and built cars the way he wanted to build them. But the company was small, and a lack of research and development funds caused Reo to leave the car business in 1936. The company would revive to build buses and trucks until 1975 a quarter century after R.E. Olds death. Olds Motor Works initially struggled without its founder at the helm. Other automakers made innovative new models, but Olds stuck primarily with the Curved Dash, which was fading in popularity by 1906. The company was saddled with $1 million in debt by 1908. Thats when auto tycoon William Durant, founder

Humble birth

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Former Lansing product: This Oldsmobile Achieva, shown in 1997, was one of the cars that used to be built at the Lansing Car Assembly plant. The plant now makes the Oldsmobile Alero, Pontiac Grand Am and Chevrolet Malibu.
of General Motors, stepped in and rescued the Lansing company. Durants assistant, William Mead, became Oldsmobiles president in 1909. The Lansing factory had 800 workers building touring, roadster and limousine models. Oldsmobile quickly regained its status as one of Americas top 10 sellers, making 21,800 cars in 1917. Workers made about 50 cents an hour decent wages for the era. Todays wage: about $22 an hour, among the highest-paying manufacturing jobs available. been inuential in shaping that high wage and standard of living. The union was born in the 1930s, as Oldsmobile and other automakers staggered out of the Great Depression. Olds employment had dropped from 7,200 in 1929 to 3,900 in 1933. Lansing formed UAW locals, but avoided the strikes that crippled Flint and other parts of the states in the 1930s. It started a tradition of good labor-management relations that company and union ofcials say was crucial in the decision to award Lansing the Cadillac factory. We dont ght each other here, said Ralph Shepard, president of

Plant construction in Delta Township n 2000: GM announces Dec. 12 that it will eliminate the Oldsmobile division in the next few years. n 2001: GM says in May that it will delay the opening of the Delta assembly plant until 2005. n 2001: The Delta Township engine plant closes its doors.

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Uncertainty about Delta plant lingers

In spite of rumors, GM says it is committed to building $1B facility
By Andy Henion
Lansing State Journal

By now, nearly everyone associated with the auto industry has heard the rumblings that General Motors Corp. will renege on its promise to build a $1 billion vehicle assembly plant in Delta Township. Not true, the automaker says. Although GM has delayed the plant opening at least a year, until 2005, it is still committed to building the 2,500-employee factory, said spokeswoman Renee RashidMerem. GM ofcials have attributed the delay to the struggling economy and say they are still trying to determine what vehicles they will build in Delta Township. Analysts say the automaker has shifted future production plans from cars to hot-selling trucks. We are assessing a variety of scenarios for the plant, Rashid-Merem said, adding that another delay is possible. Lansing-area ofcials say the plant, along with GMs soon-to-open Cadillac plant in downtown Lansing, are crucial to stem the job losses when GM quits making small cars at its aging Lansing Car Assembly plants in 2004 or 2005. The two new plants would employ a combined 4,300 people. But Lansing Car Assembly has about 6,500 workers, meaning a potential loss of 2,200 jobs that pay more than $21 per hour. In addition, GMs Saginaw Street metal-stamping plant, which supplies parts to Lansing Car Assembly, faces an unknown future. If that Lansing Township plant were to close along with LCA, another 1,800 jobs BECKY SHINK/Lansing State Journal would be lost. Massive complex: The new $560 million Grand River Assembly plant in Lansing (the what its plans are for its aging Lansing Car Assembly plants (the chassis plant is the Worst-case scenario: GMs employment in mid-Michigan could dip below 7,000 from complex of three white buildings in the background) will open in January. GM hasnt said striped building in the foreground); they will stop making cars in 2004 or 2005. a current level of about 11,000. GM has slashed its local work force from antiquated and GM needs to improve its 23,400 employees in 1979, although it reproductivity, said Doug Rothwell, chief exmains the areas largest private employer. ecutive of the Michigan Economic DevelopSome warn the job losses will continue. ment Corp. GM will not build that second plant, GM wont say what it will do with the said Pat Meyer, head of UAW Concern, plants, but Rothwell said the company a nonunion group that ghts for worker plans to tear them down. The MEDC, he rights. Theyre going to call it economics. said, would likely provide tax relief to GM Meyer, who is lobbying state ofcials to or another company that builds a new facstanch the loss of high-paying jobs in Lantory there. sing and across Michigan, said GMs local Jack Davis, a Lansing lawyer and key work force could dip to 4,000. No one has member of a community team that helped security anymore in their jobs, she said. secure the new GM plants, said he expects David Cole, an Ann Arbor auto analyst, the LCA plant site to host either a lowbelieves GM will build the Delta plant. He volume GM plant or an auto parts supplier. said the automaker can afford to wait at GM already builds the low-volume Cadilleast another two years before it announces lac Eldorado at the Craft Centre in Lansing details. Township. Next year, workers there will beWe used to hear ve years in advance gin building the new Chevy SSR hot rod, about these plants; now we might hear a another niche vehicle. year or 18 months out. These plants are Hollister said he wont be happy unless very exible, said Cole, director of the CenGM builds another new plant or retools ter for Automotive Research. Something Lansing Car Assembly for a new vehicle. could come up that is unforeseen, but my That added employment, he said, could guess is youll see a plant in Delta Township keep GMs local work force at full strength. not too far down the road. We have never, at any point, said wed Currently GM is building a metalsettle for less than three plants, the mayor stamping plant at the Delta site to produce said. Three plants would probably get us to BECKY SHINK/Lansing State Journal the break-even point. car parts for different assembly operations. Another project: Work has begun on the metal-stamping plant for Construction on the main assembly plant has been delayed a year; That plant will employ a few hundred Cole said a third plant seems like a people. stretch. GMs new $1 billion vehicle assembly complex in Delta Township. GM says the slow economy is one factor. The start of construction on the main But then its really hard for GM to close assembly complex, which will support about Hollister and other community and labor those plants alive, said Art Baker, chief Street, are nearly a century old and span those old plants and walk away, just from 2,500 jobs, is the project that has been leaders are now trying to nd a replacenegotiator for United Auto Workers Local a combined 5.75 million square feet an environmental standpoint. Who knows delayed. ment for the LCA plants, which build the 652, Lansings largest union. While somemore than twice the size of todays streamwhats in the ground there, and whether Lansing Mayor David Hollister said GM Pontiac Grand Am, the Chevrolet Malibu one else is celebrating the grand opening lined plants. Although they are GMs busiyou could even sell it for a shopping center ofcials have assured him they wont close and the Oldsmobile Alero. The Alero will be of the Cadillac plant (in January), Ill be est domestic car factories, building more or a subdivision, he said. the Lansing Car Assembly plants until they axed in 2004; GM wont say where it will in meetings with GM working on our next than 400,000 vehicles a year, the company I just dont know. And my guess is, GM open the Delta complex, preventing masshift production of the Grand Am and the victory. wastes $1.3 million a year shipping car bod- doesnt know at this point either. sive layoffs. Malibu, two of its best-selling cars. The LCA plants, located about a mile ies from one plant to the other. Contact Andy Henion at 377-1205 or Thats reassuring to me, he said. All my time is going toward keeping apart on Verlinden Avenue and Townsend Clearly these old plants downtown are ahenion@lsj.com.

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trounced by luxury powerhouses Lexus, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Cadillac sales have plummeted 52 percent since peaking in 1978. The $30,000-$40,000 CTS, which replaces the poor-selling Cadillac Catera, is the rst in a slate of head-turning vehicles designed to reverse that trend. Because the CTS looks similar to other upcoming Caddies, many see it as an all-important litmus test. If the CTS is not a make-it-or-break-it car, its pretty close to that, said Jeff Schuster, an analyst for auto consultant J.D. Power and Associates. If its not as successful as they want it to be, it will probably not take down Cadillac. But if this product doesnt do well, it is going to hamper what is going to happen to the rest of the products. Plant ofcials know they cant directly inuence sales, but they can build a car of the same high quality that denes highend offerings from Lexus and BMW. They also plan to build each car in 24 hours, which would crush the industry standard. We need to come out of the chute with a quality level that gets us on the playing eld with the best in the industry, said plant manager Bob Anderson, whos instilled an open-door, all-for-one culture among his staff. Ron Harbour, a Troy analyst who specializes in plant productivity, said he expects GM to become more efcient as it sheds workers and relies more on technology and the team-building concept that fueled the Japanese automakers success. I think what the Lansing plant will do is prove that you can build a smaller luxury vehicle and still build it to very high quality and with high efciency, he said. I think theyre going to blow away some of the norms of what productivity can be with a luxury car. Like all employees at the Cadillac plant, 30-year-old Darren McDonald volunteered to work there. And like many workers, he said hes pumped about the chance to help chart a new course for GM even though it means fewer people are working alongside him. I think theres a bright future here, said McDonald, a production worker from Nashville, southwest of Lansing in Barry County. A lot of people, when they talk about quality, some of our competitors names come up. But I think General Motors has made a commitment and given us an opportunity to set the bar for quality. Contact Andy Henion at 377-1205 or ahenion@lsj.com.

Lansing Grand River Assembly plant

n Location: Main and Walnut streets, just off Interstate 496 in downtown Lansing n Cost: $560 million n Employees: 1,500 at peak operation n Peak production: About 160,000 Cadillacs a year on two shifts n Vehicles: The CTS sedan (right), with a Cadillac sport utility and, possibly, the next-generation Seville added later n Size: 1.9 million square feet; 82.5 acres n Components: Adjacent body, paint and general assembly factories n Suppliers: 56 worldwide n Trucks: 350 semis delivering parts to the plant daily n Plant manager: Robert Bob Anderson n Union: United Auto Workers Local 652 n Etc.: Lansing Grand River is General Motors Corp.s rst U.S. assembly plant since the Saturn plant was built in Spring Hill, Tenn., in 1986

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GM workers: The lives of those on the line

Working with people is supervisors calling
He had a prestigious job designing car interiors at GMs Tech Center in Warren, but for Venki Padmanabhan, something was missing. The 38-year-old father of three wanted to be on the assembly line working with people. So in an unusual move, Padmanabhan took a demotion to supervise a small production team at Buick City in Flint about three years ago. When that factory closed in 1999, he got an even better assignment: production shift leader at the new Lansing Grand River plant. Padmanabhan now supervises dozens of workers and plays a crucial role in the nal assembly of GMs new luxury car, the Cadillac CTS. I found my calling late in life, says Padmanabhan, an 11-year company veteran who has a doctorate in engineering. I found that my calling was working with production people on the plant oor. One of his hardest tasks was convincing union members to help design the manufacturing process at GMs rst U.S. assembly plant in 15 years. That team effort was a new concept for many who were used to the top-down, confrontational management style of years past. CHRIS HOLMES/Lansing State Journal When they came here they saw us The right t: Venki Padmanabhan is a production shift leader at his calling late in life, wanting to work on the assembly line with as managers and expected us to behave the new Lansing Grand River Assembly plant. He says he found production workers. He also has worked for GM in Warren and Flint. the same way we did before. We kept telling them, Were different, were different, From the moment he was hired, he realscrap we create, buying our own gloves or youre empowered, he says. ized he had more control of his destiny whos on vacation, he says. GM is nally I would say its a very, very hard-won than ever before. using its No. 1 resource: its people. relationship. And its still very fragile. You can make General Motors what you Jensen lives in Lansing with his Padmanabhan, whose wife, Pam, is an When Dick Jensen walked into GMs want it to be, he wife, MeriAlice, engineer at GMs Lansing Car Assembly Lansing diesel engine plant 23 years ago, says. If you want who works for a plant, says he doesnt regret his decision to he got three hours of training before he was to coast and ride, workers compenjoin the highly intense process of building put to work on the assembly line. you can do that. sation insurance cars. And if you couldnt cut it three days If you want to get rm. The couple Dont tell my bosses, he says, but Id later, you were gone, he says. involved and be has three grown be happy as a pig if I were doing this for Jensen could cut it, and nearly a quarter part of the prosons. Jensen, the the rest of my life. of a century later hes starting another new cess, youre welonly family mem Andy Henion job helping build the new Cadillac CTS come to do that. ber who works for at Lansing Grand River, GMs most auThe opportuniGM, previously tomated and streamlined North American ties to be part was a team coplant to date. of the process are ordinator at LanBut this time, the 46-year-old Jensen even greater at sing Car AssemBen Speer, 44, of Grand Ledge took a was trained for weeks before taking his the new plant, bly, which has $1-an-hour pay cut when he left his job as post as a team leader in the paint shop. Speer says. built cars for dean auto mechanic to work for GM 24 years Before, it was do your job or youre gone. Jensen I think the cades. Speer ago. He never regretted it. Now General Motors works with you a litmanagement and When I was Ive always been happy to come to the union representatives have done a very tle more. getting ready to come down here, there work, Speer says. Ive never dreaded it. Jensen and his union colleagues also good job of getting the word out to the rank were some people saying, What do you He came to GM because of the benets have been given more autonomy than ever and le on the oor that their voice matwant to go there for? he says. Thats bethe job offered. before. ters, Speer says. Ive not found anything cause they were afraid of change. Change I knew I would have medical and a pen- that management has closed the door on Management still has the last say in the isnt always a good thing, but it isnt always sion, Speer says. It was for my future, not and said we cant discuss it. overall picture, but in our own areas we a bad thing, either. to put dollars in my pocket today. Hugh Leach run the whole show, whether its how much One change Jensen enjoys is open communication between production workers and managers. I found out when I got here, besides using my hands I can use my mind now. I can ask questions to anybody. I can walk into (plant manager) Bob Andersons ofce and talk to him if I want, he says. A lot of people want to be told what to do. They want to come in and do their job and go home. At this plant it doesnt work that way. Andy Henion

Son of Olds worker says plant means a lot

When you grew up in Lansing 40 years ago, you grew up in an Oldsmobile town. No one knows that better than union representative Jim DooLittle, whose father worked for the Lansing-founded company for three decades. All I knew was Oldsmobile, he says. As we grew up, Lansing was Oldsmobile. Lansing was the Olds rocket engine. Everybody wanted an Oldsmobile. DooLittle And while GMs new Cadillac factory in Lansing doesnt take the sting out of losing Olds which will be phased out in 2004 it goes a long way toward providing security for 1,500 autoworkers and many spinoff jobs, DooLittle says. It goes further than what it means for the union, he says. The union is made up of people in the community. This means a lot for this whole community. As a committeeman for United Auto Workers Local 652, DooLittle, 46, represents the hourly workers at the new Lansing Grand River plant. All employees volunteered to work there, he says, hoping to break quality and efciency records at the state-of-theart plant. The energy level out there on the plant oor is unbelievable, he says. In 25 years Ive never been involved in an undertaking of this size where everybody is positive and saying, Nobody is going to touch us. Were going to be the best in the world. Lofty goals aside, DooLittle acknowledges that the success of the plant has much to do with the sales of the cars it will produce. First off the line is the CTS sedan, with at least two more Cadillacs expected to be added to the production line within a

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couple years. Will Lansing become known as a Cadillac town? In todays world, I dont think so, DooLittle says. Having an identity based on Oldsmobile or Pontiac or Chevy, I dont think well see that again in our lifetimes. Although, believe me, we would love to be known as a Cadillac town and the prestige that comes with it. Andy Henion assembly and I was hanging alternators. Now she audits cars after they are built. I get it . . . and go over it just to make sure quality goes into the product, Demond-Seiler says. At her old plant, different people checked various aspects of the car. Now shes checking the cars for durability, water testing them, checking out the paint and more. Demond-Seiler says theres a great attitude among the workers at the new plant. If you see a problem, you dont hesitate for one minute, she says. Youre going to x it instead of saying Let it go, theyll x it at the dealership. Were about quality. Hugh Leach

Man will help to keep workers spirits high

Kevin Tinsley has been a Colorado ski instructor, a Boy Scout adventure director, a Patriot missile crew member in the U.S. Army. More recently, this 34-year-old assembly line worker made it to the third round of interviews on the CBS hit show Survivor one step away from competing for the $1 million prize. Tinsley, a fun-loving bachelor, insists he was in it for the money more than the national exposure. I thought I could win the million dollars, he says. Who wants to be on TV unshaven and smelly? Forget the stereotype of the gruff, monosyllabic autoworker pounding out car bodies with a mallet. Tinsley, who works in the robot-lled body shop at GMs new Lansing Grand River plant, also serves on the enthusiasm team, a group charged with keeping the workers motivated. I dont know if Im the life of the party, but I give people something to laugh at, says Tinsley, who lives in Lansing with his three dogs. Youve got to relax and enjoy yourself, know the people you work with. Tinsley previously worked at GMs Lansing Car Assembly plant for about six years. He says he volunteered at the new Cadillac factory because he wanted to be part of the future. There, he helped design his own job of grinding and brushing out aws in the sheet metal. Its exciting to be part of a complete idea change for General Motors, as far as them building a new plant here, a new process, as well as a brand new car from the ground up, says Tinsley, a member of United Auto Workers Local 652. And from a union standpoint, were more involved in the production startup than I think weve ever been. When asked about his role models, Tinsley lists his dad, Herman Tinsley, who is GMs North American nance director. Who else? Bob Barker, for having his pets spayed and neutered, he says, then adds: Thats a joke. Andy Henion

Pride, team atmosphere in place at new factory

If you had told Jerry Gunn that one day he would have lunch with the president of General Motors North America when started working for the automaker 24 years ago, he would have questioned your sanity. I had to give a presentation to Ron Zarrella, Gunn says. He asked me a question from 2 feet away about the process in our plant. Gunn, 44, of Woodland said the communication among workers and management at the new Lansing Grand River plant has instilled a real sense of pride in all who work there. Its awesome to Gunn work with a man like (plant manager) Bob Anderson, he says. When you see him get up in front of a big room to give a speech and he gets choked up because hes so proud of what were doing, well, if that doesnt rip your heart out, nothing does. Youre a part of a team here. Were like a family. Theres so much pride from top to bottom that its just awesome. Everybody is united by one common goal, Gunn says, and thats to build the best car in the world. Theres no exceptions, he says Well not settle for anything less. Gunn says working at the new plant isnt for everyone. Some may be turned off by the requirement that they wear a uniform. I think its great, he says. General Motors buys me clothes for the week. Whats wrong with that? Ive got three different colors of shirts and three different pairs of pants. Hugh Leach

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Full of energy: Not only will Kevin Tinsley work in the body shop at Lansing Grand River Assembly, but he will serve on the enthusiasm

team, which will help keep workers motivated. Youve got to relax and enjoy yourself, know the people you work with, Tinsley says.
the whole car here and thats exciting. Demond-Seiler, 50, was a single mother of two when she was hired by General Motors 23 years ago, attracted by both the benets and the pay. My children at rst had a hard time with it because I had to be on the night shift and couldnt be home with them, she said. But then, with the benets, as they got older they realized how important that is. Now that theyre on their own, they denitely know how important that is. Her rst job was driving cars off the end of the assembly line. I thought, Oh Demond-Seiler my God, this is all I have to do to make this kind of money. I love it, she says. Then reality hit. I lasted about 30 days on that job and then I went to nal

Commute from Alma worth it for union rep

Colin Thrush, 47, makes a 120-mile round trip to Lansing every weekday from his home in Alma. Its worth every mile of it just in job satisfaction, he says. Thrush has been a union representative for nearly 20 of his 23 years with General Motors. He says he has never seen as much cooperation between union and management as now exists at the Lansing Grand River plant. Thrush The team-built philosophy is deeper than it has ever been before, Thrush says. Its a good change. Thrush, who is married and has two

children, says ve GM vice presidents visited the new plant a few weeks ago. I never even saw one for 22 years, he says. Now we are sitting down with them and talking with them to nd out about their philosophies. Thrush said both the leadership of GM and the UAW has done an about-face to create as close to an ideal work environment as possible at the new Cadillac plant. They give us direction, but they leave hands off, trusting us to negotiate whats best for our prot, he says. They provide direction but theyre not overbearing. I used to not brag so much about where I work, but thats all I do anymore, he says. Hugh Leach

Being a part of history a big draw for woman

You want to know why I came to Lansing Grand River? asks Wendi DemondSeiler, 50, of Mason. I came because of the opportunity to be a part of history. We are going to be doing

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CTS the vanguard of Cadillacs new attitude

Luxury division hopes Lansing-built car will attract younger buyers
By Andy Henion
Lansing State Journal

Vital statistics for the CTS

Dimensions & capacities
Wheelbase: 113.4 in. Front track: 60 in. 00 t Rear track: 60 in. 40,4 s $ o C 900 , Length: 190.1 in. $29 Width: 70.7 in. Height: 56.7 in. Fuel capacity: 18 gal. Curb weight: 3509 lb. (manual) 3568 lb. (automatic)

A century of Cadillac
n 1902: The rst Cadillac automobile is completed on Oct. 17. Powered by a single-cylinder engine, the $750 car sells out at the 1903 New York Automobile Show. n 1910: Cadillac introduces closed bodywork called a limousine as a standard offering. n 1915: Cadillac unveils the rst mass-produced V-8 engine. n 1930: Cadillac introduces the rst V-16 engine for passenger cars. n 1948: The famous Cadillac tail n, designed by Harley Earl, is introduced. n 1950: Cadillac begins a 48-year run as the worlds top-selling luxury car. n 1964: Cadillac provides the auto industrys rst thermostatically regulated heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. n 1975: Cadillac is the rst U.S. manufacturer to use electronic fuel injection. n 1978: Cadillac reaches its peak sales year with 350,813 vehicles. n 1982: The Cadillac Cimarron is introduced as a rebadged Chevrolet Cavalier and never takes off with consumers. n 1998: Lincoln outsells Cadillac, ending the companys reign as luxury car king. Cadillac also introduces the Escalade, its rst sport utility vehicle. n 2000: Cadillac sales fall to 189,154 fth place in luxury cars behind Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lincoln. GM also moves production of the Cadillac Eldorado to GMs Craft Centre in Lansing Township. n 2001: GM announces it will phase out the poor-selling Eldorado. n 2001: Cadillac opens a $560 million plant in Lansing as part of a $5 billion overhaul of the division that includes a whole new stable of vehicles.

If Cadillac is going to claw its way back to the top of the luxury car market it ruled for nearly 50 years, the revolution will start here in Lansing. The locally built CTS is the rst in a new stable of vehicles the struggling automaker hopes will win over a generation enamored with Lexus, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. General Motors Corp. is spending $5 billion to overhaul its once-dominant luxury division, which turns 100 next year. That includes the $560 million, state-of-the-art Lansing Grand River Assembly plant, which starts building the showroom-ready 2003 CTS next month. Many reviews of the $30,000-$40,000 small sedan have been favorable, although some analysts say the CTS has a heavy angular look and lacks the elegance of its European and Asian competitors. The real test will come from consumers. The CTS and any mainstream Cadillac they build is make-it-or-break-it for Cadillac at this point, said Susan Jacobs of Jacobs & Associates in New Jersey, which analyzes the luxury car market. They cant really afford major failures. Founded in 1902, Cadillac came to epitomize luxury and innovation with vehicles like the 1927 LaSalle and the 1949 Coupe deVille. The company introduced the rst mass-produced V-8 engine, the V-16, the sunroof and the tail n. In 1950, Cadillac began its unprecedented run as luxury car king. Sales peaked at 350,813 units in 1978 as the company controlled more than 50 percent of the luxury car market. Cadillac was very successful with the post-World War II generation, Jacobs said. They dened luxury, actually, and catered to the preferences and priorities of that audience as they aged toward retirement. But sales plummeted in the 1980s as consumers eschewed what they saw as bland, poorly designed vehicles like the Allante and the Cimarron, which was a thinly veiled Chevrolet Cavalier. More recently, sales of the German-built Catera and the locally built Eldorado have struggled. The Catera will be replaced by the CTS. The Eldorado will be axed next

Fuel economy (Est.)

EPA city: 18 mpg EPA highway: 26 mpg

Cadillac CTS

Interior

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Not your fathers Caddy: Onlookers get a peek at the 2003 Cadillac CTS, a car the luxury division is banking on to compete with nameplates such as Lexus, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.
year at GMs Craft Centre in Lansing Township and workers there will build the new Chevy SSR. In 1998, Lincoln ended Cadillacs halfcentury reign as luxury sales leader. This year, Cadillac is on pace to sell about 175,000 vehicles, less than half of its 1978 level. The brand is running fth behind Lexus, BMW, Mercedes and Acura, with Lincoln a close sixth. The average Cadillac buyer is 62 years old at least a decade older than the average buyer of a BMW or Mercedes. Cadillacs new campaign, dubbed Art & Science, aims to capture more of the importbuying consumers in their 30s and 40s. Next year, Cadillac will begin offering the CTS and the $50,000 Escalade EXT truck. Coming in 2003: the XLR, a $65,000 twoseat roadster thats a vast departure for Cadillac. At Lansing Grand River, Cadillac within a year or two will add production of a carbased sport utility vehicle modeled after the Vizon concept and the next-generation Seville, analysts say. The new Cadillacs share a chiseled look and a prominent widespaced grille. Were going to be different, were going to stand out in the (luxury) segment, Cadillac General Manager Mark LaNeve said. Our design is bold, its breakthrough, its fresh and we are really going to offer an alternative to buyers. Many Cadillac dealers complain of declining sales and say the new batch of vehicles is long overdue. Theyre excited about the CTS, which arrives in showrooms early next year. The styling on the Catera wasnt all that hot, although the inside was beautiful and it drove zippy and fun. The CTS has the styling to go with it, I think, said Tony Young, who has sold Cadillacs in Owosso for 18 years. We needed a whole new look, not just a new grille and a set of wheels. But some say the CTS doesnt deliver. Sadly, the exterior disappointed, said a reviewer for Wardsauto.com, a leading industry publication. Its too busy and the anks too heavy to call it elegant.

Cadillac ofcials say the CTS needs to turn heads if its going to make a dent in the small-car luxury class, which includes the popular BMW 3-series and the MercedesBenz C-Class. It is a love-it or hate-it design, Cadillac spokesman Kevin Smith said. The category it competes in is so incredibly competitive, the last thing you want is a car that people just like. Youve got to love it. If its a little bit polarizing and some people dont like it, thats probably not a bad thing. Jacobs likes the looks of the CTS but said Cadillac may have to keep its expectations low because of the weak economy. If the division sells a modest 30,000 vehicles, that would be fabulously successful, she said. Consumers bought just 17,290 Cateras in 2000, and sales are down 35 percent this year. Cadillacs leading car, the DeVille, sold 106,000 units last year. Overall Cadillac sales are down 10.4 percent through October. The luxury market Cadillac is heading into is relatively soft and intensively competitive, Jacobs said. To really get the younger buyers its going to be a hard sell. Contact Andy Henion at 377-1205 or ahenion@lsj.com.

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Thank you, General Motors,

for choosing the members of the Michigan State Building and Construction Trades Council to build your state-of-the-art $500 million Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant.
When General Motors decided to construct their new world class Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant, it chose 1,700 members of the Michigan State Building and Construction Trades Council to get the job done. Building trades union members learn their skills in the most modern apprentice training facilities in the nation. These training facilities are industryfinanced and funded at no cost to Michigan taxpayers. General Motors knew building trades union members would complete the new plant on time, safely and within budget, and get the job done right the first time.
Cadillac CTS built at GMs Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant

Members of the Michigan State Building and Construction Trades Council are your neighbors and friends who take pride in building the foundation that impacts our daily lives. You see their work everywherein the schools and universities our children attend, the buildings we work in, the stores we shop at and the roads on which we travel. Building trades union members are skilled experts who receive excellent pay, secure health care coverage and strong retirement plans that allow them to retire with dignity.

Michigan construction is the opportunity industry. Building trades unions are building Michigans future today.
Building trades unions are comprised of the following crafts:
Building Trade Union Asbestos Workers Local 47 Boilermakers Local 169 Bricklayers Local 9 Electricians Local 665 Elevator Constructors Local 85 Glaziers Local 826 Iron Workers Local 25 Laborers Local 998 Operating Engineers Local 324 Plasterers & Cement Masons Local 16 Painters Local 845 Roofers Local 70 Sheet Metal Workers Local 7 Teamsters Local 580 Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 333 Contact Greg Revard John Marek Jim Bitzer Bill Patrick Andre Schirk Dennis Redinger Art Ellul Dale Brzezinski Ken Petrie Greg Brisboy Ray Whitaker Tom Curry Mark Chivington George Warner Jim Davis Telephone 989-799-5780 313-584-8520 517-886-9781 517-393-5530 517-882-0100 517-663-9132 517-882-3078 517-393-9464 517-393-0400 517-882-3931 517-882-3701 517-548-6554 517-374-7337 517-887-2944 517-393-5480

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ITS SOUL IS ALREADY LEGENDARY. EVERYTHING ELSE IS DESTINED TO BE.

A world-class team and a world-class product. Congratulations to Lansing Grand River Assembly. Its history in the making.

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