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General Motors announced that it will shutter plants for the month of January in order to cut production of 250,000 vehicles. The cutback "affects workers in Canada, the United States and even in Mexico," NBC's Ron Allen reported, although 14 of the 20 plants are in Michigan. ABC's Chris Bury reported from Kokomo in neighboring Indiana where 20% of the city's entire workforce is employed by either Chrysler or Delco, the auto parts supplier. "No one in car country is under any illusions that the latest rescue hope is much more than a holiday reprieve, leaving places like Kokomo twisting in the wind." CBS' Cynthia Bowers pointed out that the vast majority of the Detroit-based automobile workforce is not represented by the UAW: "It is non-union shops that make most of what actually goes into a car."
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