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UAW Local 1268 member Casey Mattson, who has worked at the Belvidere Assembly Plant for nearly 25 years, speaks with visitors during a food drive at the United Auto Workers Local 1268 union hall ...
BELVIDERE, Ill. (WTVO) — The White House said automaker Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram, should honor its commitments and reopen the Belvidere Assembly Plant.
In October 2023, Stellantis agreed to build a $3.2 billion battery plant in Belvidere and invest $1.5 billion to retool the Belvidere Assembly Plant for an all-new mid-sized truck.
So promising was the prospect of reopening Belvidere that it drew a celebratory visit from President Joe Biden and a pledge of $335 million in federal dollars to revamp the 5-million-square-foot plant, which began building vehicles in 1965. A year later, there's no parts hub and no definitive plan to open the assembly and battery plants.
It's been two days since UAW and Stellantis reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that would end the 44-day strike against the automaker and reopen the idled Belvidere Assembly Plant.
In November, President Joe Biden came to Belvidere to celebrate the UAW-Stellantis agreement to reopen the plant, joining Fain and a jubilant crowd of autoworkers.
The Belvidere Assembly Plant is adjacent to the Chrysler-operated Belvidere Satellite Stamping Plant. The stamping plant produces sheet metal parts for the production line. [ 4 ] The factory has 5,300,000 square feet (490,000 m 2 ) of floor space over 280 acres (1.1 km 2 ) of land, and had produced 5.9 million vehicles by the end of the 1993 ...
UAW Vice President Rich Boyer, in a union news release, said the company would be reopening the plant and adding more than a thousands jobs at a new battery plant in Belvidere, representing a ...