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More investment in Belvidere is expected to bring more vehicle and freight traffic. A $30M bridge could help address a longstanding traffic problem. Only solution to Belvidere's freight train ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The deal includes an agreement to reopen Stellantis' assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois, which will now build midsize trucks, Fain said in a video on social media.