Laid off UAW 1183 workers with a suggestion for the industry. Copyright 2009 Washington Post
Regional Economy
A Message from Laid Off Auto Workers
In January of 2009, President-elect Barack Obama got a message while passing through Newark, DE.
The people holding the signs in the picture in the header are members of UAW 1183. They had just been laid off work the month before, from the Damiler-Chrysler Newark Assembly plant, which can be seen to the left in this picture of the president and Vice-president on the train.
The closed plant made only SUVs, and now it seems that the workers had a better strategic sense of the correct production future for the company than did the management.
Auto Port Inc.
Auto Port Inc. is a high volume auto-conversion facility located in New Castle, DE that builds V2G capable vehicles. The picture on the left shows Auto Port during production of their first eBox. Below is the ribbon-cutting for the 1st completed eBox.
