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United Auto Workers Local 1112 members and supporters of GM Lordstown workers block the Lordstown auto facilityâs Bailey Road entrance for a moment during the last day of production of the Chevrolet Cruze and the idling of the plant on March 6, 2019. The Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber gave General Motors its Spirit of the Valley Award, which former UAW Local 1112 president Dave Green said was a smack in the face.
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UAW Local 1112 members hold hands March 7, 2019, as a helicopter circles the union hall in Jackson Township. From left are Darren Bodak of Struthers, Joe Nuzzi and his wife Jennifer of Boardman (both GM Lordstown workers) and Mike Sullivan of Lordstown.
The last of 14,000 or so structural steel beams is lowered into place in February at the $2.3 billion Ultium Cells LLC facility in Lordstown. General Motors, a 50 percent investor in the plant, is being recognized by the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber for the investment, but the award is raising the eyebrows of some union members and former assembly plant workers.
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LORDSTOWN Giving General Motors an award for the impact it’s made in the community is “like a smack in the face” to the former workers and their families displaced when the automaker closed its Lordstown assembly plant, its former union leader said.
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Mobility Expert: Ban Non-Autonomous Vehicles From Smart Cities The result of this move could see all human-piloted vehicles, trucks, cars, motorcycles, bicycles and even pedestrians being barred from entering the city highway infrastructure.
Manually driven vehicles should be banned from entering the autonomous urban highways of a future smart city.
That’s the ideal proposed by Charity Rumery, head of automotive and industrial sales-Americas region, for mapping giant HERE Technologies. While this sort of constraint on personal liberties has been voiced before, it seldom gets aired by a senior executive of a global automotive supplier to major automakers.
The result of this move could see all human-piloted vehicles, trucks, cars, motorcycles, bicycles and even pedestrians being barred from entering the city highway infrastructure. In effect, humanity would have to be herded into specific pedestrian zones while the robots take over total control of the transportation system
Detroit The battle to keep the auto show in the Motor City isn t over yet.
City Council on Tuesday sent a resolution to a committee for review. It urges the Detroit Auto Dealers Association to reconsider relocating the North American International Auto Show from the TCF Center in 2021 and continue its sustained presence in Detroit, by honoring the contract it signed in 2018 to hold the show in Cobo (now the TCF Center), each year through 2026.
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The resolution must be approved by the Neighborhood and Community Services Committee before being voted on my the whole council. A resolution doesn t require any commitment from the DADA, which runs the auto show.