In this Jan. 21, 2004 file photo, operations technicians work the Saturn Ion final inspection line at the General Motors Saturn plant in a Spring Hill, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)By TOM KRISHER and BREE FOWLER, AP Auto Writers
DETROIT – A former Saturn assembly plant located in Spring Hill, Tenn., will be reopened under a new GM/UAW pact, and new products have been promised to plants in Michigan and Missouri, according to people familiar with the deal.
A plant in Wisconsin, which stopped producing trucks in 2009, will remain idled but won’t close.
The new four-year contract between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union will bring only a minimal increase in fixed costs for the automaker, a person briefed on the talks said today.
The agreement, reached late Friday, includes a $5,000 signing bonus and the possibility of sweeter profit-sharing checks for GM’s 48,500 factory workers, but most of them aren’t likely to see a pay raise.