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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.
Cutting the ribbon are Roy Kirchner (President, AutoPort), Jack A. Markell (Governor of Delaware), and Hallie Reese (VP of Safety and Strategic Services at Pepco Holdings, Inc.).  Other company and state officials, and the assembly workers, are in the background.  Inset shows the completed vehicle driving out past the cut ribbon.  (Photos   Copyright 2009, University of Delaware).