Byline: Ted Evanoff
Oct. 2--United Auto Workers leaders say General Motors' massive Indianapolis metal stamping plant probably will stay open. But analysts say it has one problem: lack of future orders.
A provision in a proposed labor contract promises no future product after 2011 for the Near-Westside plant and would allow GM to consider closing or selling the 850-employee facility after that date.
Senior UAW leaders in Detroit have assured UAW Local 23 there is a strong likelihood that Indianapolis stamping will remain open beyond 2011, said Kenneth Walton, a UAW Local 23 shop committeeman at Indianapolis stamping.
"The bad part of the contract says we could ...