Oklahoma City Assembly

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Oklahoma City Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Construction on the 4,000,000-square-foot plant started in 1974 and it opened in 1979 to produce the X-body cars. The company spent $700,000,000 to convert the plant from building the Chevrolet Malibu car to the GMT360 SUVs in 2001. The plant was devastated by a tornado on May 8, 2003, but the company rebuilt the plant and returned it to operations just 53 days later.

On December 6, 2005, however, the company alerted the United Auto Workers local 1999 that the plant would be closed in February 2006 as part of a cost-savings measure. The last vehicle produced at the plant, a white Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT, rolled out on February 20, 2006. The plant was the first of 12 facilities the company plans to close by 2008 as it struggles to match production with market demand. An estimated 521,400 GMT800 trucks were built at Oklahoma City Assembly.

The Oklahoma City plant employed 2,400 — 2,200 hourly and 200 salaried — but economists said as many as 7,500 jobs in the area could be affected including those at GM suppliers and secondary jobs, like hotel and restaurant workers.

Laid-off employees have the option of retiring while others will enroll in GM's Jobs Bank, which allows workers to collect full pay and benefits as they attend classes or volunteer at community agencies. Some workers will continue to be paid through September 2007, when GM's UAW contract expires.

Products:

Buick Century
Chevrolet Celebrity
Chevrolet Citation
Chevrolet Malibu
Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT
Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera
Pontiac Phoenix
Pontiac 6000
GMC Envoy XL
GMC Envoy XUV (produced from 2003 through March 15, 2005)
2003–2006 Isuzu Ascender

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