MISHAWAKA –– American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. is not holding back AM General any longer. With the UAW’s ratification Thursday of a new contract between it and American Axle, GM informed AM General that it would get it enough parts for the Hummer H2 plant to resume production June 2.
Hummer H2 has had nearly 400 employees temporarily laid off since March 4 because of a lack of parts being shipped from GM because of the strike.
The strike began Feb. 26 and ended with Thursday’s ratification of the contract by the UAW. "Workers as a group will come back to work Monday, the 2nd of June," said Craig Mac Nab, AM General spokesman. "And they are happy."
Mac Nab said that about 50 workers would be called back to work next week to help start up the plant.