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U.K. Union: Loss of Astra Output Would Doom Plant
General Motors Co.'s Opel assembly plant in Ellesmere Port, England, will close if the company decides not to build the next-generational Astra small car there, the Unite union tells Dow Jones Newswires.
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General Motors Co.'s Opel assembly plant in Ellesmere Port, England, will close if the company decides not to build the next-generational Astra small car there, the Unite union tells Dow Jones Newswires.
The union, which represents workers at the factory, tells the news service it expects Opel to disclose its plans for the U.K. facility over the next 10 days. Analysts say the company, which also makes the current-generation Astra in Russelsheim, Germany, and Gliwice, Poland, may need only two plants to meet demand.
Unite tells Dow Jones it has not yet had plant-level talks with the company.
Opel is currently drafting a restructuring plan that could include plant closings after 2014. The factory in Ellesmere Port and another in Bochum, Germany, are considered most vulnerable to closure.
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