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...workers on the speedy production line. Just how, nobody really knows. G.M. has traced the problem to its plant in Buffalo, which has been making G.M. parts for no less than 50 years. It is believed that defective shafts were accidentally shipped to the Vega assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, instead of being placed in specially colored orange chutes reserved for faulty parts. At the Buffalo plant the machine operators work under a "pride of workmanship" program and inspect the axles themselves. Then other inspectors double-check. Since G.M. discovered the problem in early May, the axles have been inspected...
Detroit's selling spree. American Motors' Gremlin is in short supply, forcing some customers to wait an extra five weeks for delivery. For the past two months, production of the Vega at Chevy's recently struck Lordstown, Ohio, plant has been at a peak level of 101 cars an hour. Ford's Pinto is the speediest seller of all: 175,000 in the first five months of 1972 v. 131,000 in the same period of 1971. Pinto benefited especially from the introduction early this year of a mini-station wagon that resembles Ford...
...half that. Those still on the job complained that they were being forced to speed up, do extra jobs and generally work too hard. The grievances got little response from G.M., but as they grew, so did the number of damaged cars. In mid-January, U.A.W. Local 1112 at Lordstown leaked a story to the press that G.M. was shipping defective Vegas to its dealers, a charge that G.M. vehemently denies. Cracks Gary Bryner, the mustachioed, hip-talking, 29-year-old president of Local 1112: "We warned them that we were going to get our story out if they wouldn...
General Motors' Lordstown, Ohio, plant is a hub of superlatives. Its assembly line is the most highly automated one in the industry; it has 26 bellows-like armed robots that can bend around corners and that make some 520 welds in each car. The line is also the fastest in the U.S., capable of producing 100 cars an hour. The labor force-long-haired, pigtailed and bell-bottomed-is the youngest of any G.M. plant, with an average age of 24 to 25. Now Lordstown, the only U.S. plant that turns out subcompact Vegas, has the industry...
...Reuther's combativeness. The companies, too, have been less belligerent than Roche's tough words would indicate. At the Norwood, Ohio, Chevrolet assembly plant, workers staged a nine-day go-slow without audible protest from General Motors. Last week a jurisdictional strike halted work at the Lordstown plant, the home of G.M.'s subcompact, the Vega 2300. Normally, says Woodcock, the company would be "kicking and screaming and disciplining right and left. Now they're just taking it. This is unheard...