There are 7 article(s) tagged General Motors:

• September 2023

  • Auto workers strike could expand against car makers. But it’s risky.

    In Memphis, members of the United Auto Workers union’s Local 2406 joined the strike with a picket line at AC Delco Distributing on Pleasant Hill Road on Friday, Sept. 22.

    By The Associated Press September 25, 2023

• February 2023

  • GM to invest $14 million in Memphis parts center

    General Motors’ Memphis Parts Distribution Center, which was opened in 1999, ships 331,700 orders per month and employs 259 people.

    By Rob Moore February 05, 2023

• January 2022

  • Ford Megasite: High-tech workforce training essential for Mid-South auto manufacturers

    The technology matters. The capacity matters. But more than anything else, auto manufacturers understand they will only be as good as the training and workers with hands-on new gas-powered and electric vehicles. 

    By Don Wade January 12, 2022

  • FedEx to add to its all-electric delivery fleet

    FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., plans for 50% of its global pickup and delivery vehicle purchases to be electric by 2025, with plans to reach 100% by 2030. 

    By Rob Moore January 06, 2022

• December 2021

  • Ford Megasite: Spring Hill more than just an automaker town

    “We’re not just an auto town. It’s an important part of the community, but not that big gorilla,” said Chris Ziegler, who worked 31 years at GM, almost 28 of them for Saturn and GM in Spring Hill. 

    By Don Wade December 31, 2021

• November 2021

  • Ford Megasite: An in-depth series on Ford’s new EV plant

    The Daily Memphian launches a special project looking at the recruitment and impact of Ford Motor Co.’s project at the Megasite of West Tennessee, beginning today with the first of three stories examining partnerships between communities and auto manufacturers.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 15, 2021

• September 2021

  • What Haywood County can learn from the GM plant in Middle Tennessee

    From its founding in 1809, to the Civil War and through the 1980s, fewer than 1,000 people lived in rural Spring Hill. Then, in 1985, General Motors came to town.

    By Ian Round September 29, 2021