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The move to shutdown both those lines affected about 1,400 assembly production workers, said Blizard. He said impacted employees will return to work next week if everything goes according to plan.
Navistar builds medium-duty commercial trucks, including those for GM, on its main line and GM cutaway vans on its line two.
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Blizard also estimates that about 300 workers, mainly from the Springfield plant’s paint department and cab line, who have been temporarily laid off as a result of the parts shortage, will return to work this week.
Those workers will prepare the lines this week so production can resume on Monday.
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