(AP) -- AP- Ohio. Workers at General Motors Corp.'s sport-utility vehicle plant in the Dayton suburb of Moraine are working their last day at the factory.Tuesday is the final day of production at the plant, which has been pumping out GM vehicles for the past 27 years. About 1,080 hourly workers are employed at the plant. In June, GM announced it would close the plant because high gasoline prices were driving consumers away from the SUVs made there. GM employed 19,000 workers in the Dayton area in 1999, before spinning off its Delphi supplier division. Tuesday's closing of the SUV plant will leave 572 workers at a GM engine plant in Moraine the automaker owns jointly with Isuzu.
General Motors Workers in Wisconsin are also seeing their last vehicle roll of the line today.
AP- Janesville, Wisconsin. The last sport utility vehicle to be assembled at General Motors' plant in Janesville has rolled off the line. Work on the 2009 Chevy Tahoe LTZ ended before 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. But the Janesville Gazette reports workers' union contract requires them to be at the plant for at least four hours, so most won't be leaving until about 10 a.m. Managers plan to spend part of the next few hours talking to employees, many of whom have worked at the plant for decades. The closing of GM's SUV production eliminates 1,200 jobs. A skeleton crew will remain at the plant to finish off a small joint venture producing trucks for Isuzu.
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