Color images from GM's recent history in Janesville.
Tom Westrick fills in a few gaps in a sea of grocery bags ready for distribution to the needy at the UAW food distribution drive on Saturday.
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Volunteer Kay Deeney puts cans of soup into grocery bags for distribution to the needy at the UAW food distribution drive on Saturday.
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Gino Sherrod, an electrician for 23 years with GM, selects a box of scalloped potatoes, while bagging groceries for the needy at possibly the last UAW food distribution drive on Saturday. Ironically, the day Janesville GM halts production is also Gino's birthday.
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Volunteers blur through the line as they work together to pack 2,100 bags of groceries for the needy during the UAW food distribution drive on Saturday.
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One thing that is certain when GM stops SUV production in Janesville on Tuesday is the neighborhood surrounding the monster facility is going to be a lot more quiet, and a lot different.
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When GM stops truck production in Janesville on Tuesday, the neighborhood around the monster facility is going to be different.
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Angel Perez puts air in his tires at the Jackson Street Citgo station near the Janesville GM Plant.
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Angel Perez of Janesville fills up his tank at the Jackson Street Citgo station near the Janesville GM plant. Station owner Ed Francois says that when the plant ends SUV production next Tuesday, 'it's going to have a huge affect on our business.'
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A customer pumps gas at the Jackson Street Citgo Station near the Janesville GM Plant.
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GM worker Brian Johnson, left, buys bird seed, cracked corn and poultry feed from Ed Hookham, the owner of Jack & Dick’s Feed & Garden at 975 S. Jackson St. Johnson, who lives on a farm in Orfordville, finds it convenient to buy farm items at the nearby store after working his shift at the plant.
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UAW Local 95 president Mike Sheridan greets Wisconsin Governor James Doyle in January 2004. Both men took part in the announcement that GM is planning to build another generation of trucks at the local facility.
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The General Motor's Janesville Assembly Plant along Industrial Avenue.
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The GM Plant as seen from Monterey Park.
06-06-03
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Kevin Arrahmaan, a millwright welder, mounts a new hoist for lifting the new 900 series vehicles at the Janesville GM plant on 03/24/05.
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Scott Huber logs on to a computer at the UW-Rock library on 12/2/08. Huber is a laid-off GM worker who is going back to school.
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Steve Books, a former employee of General Motors, shows his sentiment toward GM. 09-16-08
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Workers leave the Janesville GM plant after work on Monday. 10/13/08
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GM electrician Brent Mikkelsen programs the robots for the new 900 series vehicles at the Janesville GM plant on 03/24/05.
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Jim Furley, a 28 year employee of General Motors, will soon find himself outside the fence for good. Furley has accepted the corporation's offer of a buyout. 06/23/06
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General Motor's Janesville Assembly Plant workers enter the South Employee Entrance for their 4:30 shift. 04-28-08
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Laid-off GM worker Scott Huber studies in the UW-Rock library on 12/02/08. Huber, who first went to college in 1979, is going back to school.
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Tonya Cooper, Janesville, sports reindeer ears as she gets some canned fruit added to her bag during the UAW/GM Food Drive at the Janesville GM Plant on 12/15/07.
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One of two new gas-fired boilers that the Janesville GM assembly plant will be putting online this fall. The boilers replace coal-fired units and will aid in GM's effort to reduce it's carbon footprint. 09-13-07
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Janesville GM assembly plant employees walk past two of the facilitiy's 5 coal-fired boilers. All five units are being replaced by two natural gas-fired boilers which will help the manufacturer reduce it's local carbon footprint. 09-13-07
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A backhoe operator clears old concrete from the construction zone for the new material loading dock area that will accomodate the new 900 series. 03/24/05
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Janesville's General Motors Assembly Plant is slated for closure within the next two and one half years.
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Joe Spielman, GM's vp of manufacturing, pumps his fist in the air at an in-plant meeting as he announces that the local assembly plant will build another generation of trucks on 01/28/04.
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GM first shift workers on their way to work. 06-26-08
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Workers, family members and volunteers line up and fill grocery bags with food items during the UAW/GM Food Drive at the Janesville GM Plant on 12/15/07.
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Lonnie Langmeier opens his model Isuzu/GM truck at a press conference celebrating the 50,000th Isuzu/GM Gas Low Cab Foward commercial truck off the line at the Janesville Assembly Plant Wednesday, April 13, 2005. The models were given away as keepsakes for those who attended the event. Longmeier distributes parts for the trucks.
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GM assembly plant manager Gary Malkus offers a round of applause for the local workforce during the announcemnt on 01/28/04 that the facility will build another generation of trucks.
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Don Primmer, of Upstream Waste Management, loads one of about 63 bicycles onto a semi-trailer at the Janesville GM plant on 02/14/08. The bicycles were being taken to Madison.
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A crowd of hundreds turned out inside the General Motors assembly plant on 01/28/04 to listen to the anouncement by GM officials that Janesville would be building a new line of trucks.
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The Janesville GM Assembly plant is not one of those that the manufacturer has slated for closing in the next several years. Financial woes are causing a the corporation to restructure in an effort to return to profitability. 11/21/05
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GM workers roll out the 50,000 Isuzu/GM Gas Low Cab Foward commercial truck at a press conference at GM Wednesday, April 13, 2005.
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The Janesville GM Assembly plant is not one of those that the manufacturer has slated for closing in the next several years. Financial woes are causing the corporation to restructure in an effort to return to profitability. 11/21/05
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GM first shift workers on their way to work. 06-26-08/
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Dick Kersten (left) and Tom Ennocenti install the front axle on an Isuzu/GM Gas Low Cab Foward commercial truck in the Janesville Assembly Plant Wednesday, April 13, 2005. The plant celebrated the completion of it's 50,000th vehicle of this type Wednesday.
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Larry Keith, a long-time employee of General Motors, will not be taking the compay offered buy-out. 06/23/06
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Larry Farnsworth does a G.C.A. check on one of 800 GM vehicle selected for the Olympics use. 11-06-01
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Barb Galinsky retired Tuesday, November 30, 2004, from her job filling vending machines at the General Motors plant in Janesville, where she has worked for 42 years.
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Students from the East Troy School District tour the General Motor plant in Janesville. 05-01-06
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City Manager Steve Sheiffer points out the proposed GM truck by-pass. 02-29-00
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Bert DeRemer (l) and Ron Danks, long time workers on the GM medium duty line. 06-06-02
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Work continues at the railroad overpass for the GM's Opportunity Dr. where workers pour cement for footings for a concrete approach wall. 08-9-4
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Jeff Eakins bolts the front grill onto a Denali on the assembly line at GM on 12-19-00.
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Workers from Lunda Construction out of Black River Falls run a pyle driver at the railroad crossing at the S. Jackson St. underpass as part of the GM road project.
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GM assembly plant employee John Gross prepares to load a cardboard parts-shipping container into a compactor in the plant on 01/10/02. GM has nearly a dozen of the compactors around the facility to process tens of thousands of pounds of cardboard a year.
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The General Motors assembly plant in Janesville is once again offering tours of the facility. New trams and a better sound system offers an enhanced experience over previous tours. 05/02/02.
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06-05-08
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(Left to right) Pat Lee, UAW/GM Industrial Hygiene Technician, tells her finding to Mike Marcks, UAW Health & Safety Representative and Claude Greene, Safety Superviso,r after a walk thru safety inspection at GM in Janesville. 02-19-03
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Charles Nanstad empties a container of plastic waste material into a bin at the Janesville GM plant on 04/20/04. Nanstad drives the bin around the plant collecting plastic for recycling.
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The railroad overpass on S. Jackson St. takes shape. The overpass is part of the GM road between S. Jackson St. and Beloit Ave. 01-29-04
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The new Opportunity Dr. which was built for better access to GM, opened to traffic today. Vehicles move under the new railroad underpass. 12-06-04
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John Westendorf and Donna Nell move through a bag packing line at the GM employee assistance food drive on 12/21/02. Westendorf, a GM employee, and volunteers from throughout the community raised funds to supply food for about three weeks for over 350 families.
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Judy McRoberts from Stoughton packs groceries bags during the UAW/GM food drive assembly line grocery packaging. 12-16-06
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Rep. Mike Sheridan explains the results of a meeting that he, Janesville GM Plant Manager Gary Malkus and Gov. Doyle had with GM executives in Detroit in the morning. 04/24/06
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Harlan Olson, a GM Pipe Fitter installs new air hose and piping that feeds the tooling fixture for robots working with the rear 1/4 panel for the new 900 series. 03/24/05
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GMAD employee Randy Crans uses a power rachet to tighten down attachemnt bolts to a runningboard on a new SUV . The local plant is possibly the only facility in the country that factory installs the product. 12/18/03
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Mike Peterson, an 18-year employee of the GM assembly plant, showed up for the annual EAP food giveaway distribution dressed appropriately as Santa Claus. Hundreds of GM workers, family members and friends packed and delivered tons of food and toys to needy area failies. 12/18/04
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Workers leave the Janesville GM Plant at shift change on 06/03/08.
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Workers leave the Janesville GM Plant at shift change on 06/03/08.
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Janesville GM assembly plant workers head out at the end of their day on 10-13-08. Although the news leaked out late last week, workers were officially notified earlier in the day that production of SUVs will cease in December.
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The local GM Assembly plant is working on ways to reduce it's carbon footprint. 09-12-07
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Janesville Police Officer Michael Blaser give a friendly police present at the GM picket lines. 09-24-07
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GM strikers walk the picket line along Delavan Dr. 09-24-07
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GM strikers walk the picket line along Delavan Dr. 09-24-07
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GM striking workers walk the picket line along Delavan Dr. 09-24-07
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John Davis of Platteville peers into a 1953 Chevy BelAir, one of the Heritage Cars on display at the end of a Heritage Tour at the Janesville GM plant in November 2008.
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Art and Marian Briggs watch work being done on the assembly line while riding a tram at the Janesville GM plant during a GM Heritage Tour in November 2008.
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Janesville GM workers and guests look over the restored 1923 Chevy Superior, the centerpiece of the new Heritage Hall at the plant on 08/20/03.
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Gary West of the 1923 Chevy restoration team, center, demonstrates some of the controls inside the 1923 Chevy Superior to Janesville GM workers Walt Jackson and Vernice Morgan on 08/20/03.
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Workers raise a framed wall segment at a new Habitat For Humanity house under construction on Williams St. in Janesville on 07/14/04. They are, from left, Jim Bender, Cheryl Schoeller, Ted Goski, Ken Olander and Scott Schoeller. The project is being completed through a partership of GM workers and UAW workers.
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New GMAD - Janesville plant manager Gary Malkus and a locally made SUV. 05/29/02
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Gary Malkus, new plant manager at GM, is still getting the feel for the Janesville plant and product. 05/29/02
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Gary Malkus, the new plant manager of GM in Janesville, chats with Kathy Weis-Reinsbach on the line on 05/29/02. Malkus spent two days installing wiring harnesses in vehicles under Weis-Reinsbach's supervision to get a feel for his new plant and its people.
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Governor Scott McCallum talks about the benefits of the E-85 car at Janesville GM on 09-19-01.
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Governor Scott McCallum talks about the E-85 car and its ethanol burning engine at Janesville GM on 09-19-01.
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Governor Scott McCallum talks abouth the ethanol burning E-85 car at GM on 09-19-01.
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Julie Monahan of the Janesville General Motors HR department, answers a phone call in her office. She said she keeps a giant bottle filled with pretzels because, "It brings people in." 03/24/05
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A new street sign leading into GM was changed from Industrial Ave. to General Motors Dr. 01-17-02
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The Janesville GM Assembly plant began producing the new generation of sport utilities earlier this week. A Chevy Tahoe sits at the plant. 01/12/06
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The General Motors assembly facility in Janesville, WI is a massive presence both physically and economically.
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Employee parking lots at GM were empty the morning of 03/11/05.
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Hundreds a GM-UAW employees, families and friends attended the annual joint food drive bag packing on 12/16/00.
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Patrick O'Leary, a pre-schooler from Milton, inspects his handywork after screwing brass fittings onto an air break valve at the Janesville GM plant on 04/25/02. Patrick's uncle Russ O'Leary works at the plant and he was there attending a special bring your child to work day tour of the plant, which included some hands on demonstrations such as assembling a door and mounting headlights.
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Several hundred volunteers work in assembly lines to package food from the GM Food Drive for the needy on 12/15/01.
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A newly welded truck body moves toward an area that uses lasers to measure for strict tolerances on the GM assembly line.
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Brianna Westendorf, 10, kneels on a table and consolidates packages of rice mix in a box during the GM Food drive on 12/15/01. Brianna's father Brian, and grandfather John Westendorf, both work for GM.
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Bags of food stack up as volunteers pack even more during the culmination of GM employee assistance food drive on 12/21/02. More than 350 families will receive about three weeks of food this year through the annual program.
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The entrance to one of the empty employee parking lots at GM on the morning of 03/11/05.
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Janesville and Beloit firefighters and GM officials salute the flag during the playing of the National Anthem at a ceremony at the Janesville GM plant on 12-04-01. GM donated vehicles to the New York Fire Department.
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J.C. Hill of Beloit, a material worker for GM in Janesville, is all smiles as he bags up food items for the needy at GM on 12/15/01.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama saunters between his campaign bus and the Janesville GM plant after arriving Wednesday morning 02/13/08.
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Barack Obama talks with Janesville GM workers at the end of his speech at the Janesville plant on 02/13/08.
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Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle is flanked by UAW Local 95 President Mike Sheridan, left, and UAW Local 95 Shop Committee Chairman John Dohner Jr. at Barack Obama's speech at the Janesville GM plant on 02/13/08.
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Barack Obama is backed by some shiny GM product as he speaks at the Janesville GM plant on 02/13/08.
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Barack Obama speaks at the Janesville GM plant on 02/13/08.
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Sylvia Calip, a tech 1 in the paint shop at the Janesville GM plant, listens intently to Barack Obama's speech on 02/13/08.
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Janesville GM plant worker Patricia Trail catches the ear of Presidential candidate Barack Obama as he shakes hands in the crowd on 02/13/08. The reliability engineer for GM asked Obama for help with making colon cancer screening more affordable.
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Presidential candidate Barack Obama shakes hands with GM retiree Steve Flood who introduced him to the crowd at the the Janesville GM plant on 02/13/08.
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Barack Obama autographs the shirt of a GM worker at the Janesville GM plant on 02/13/08.
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Barack Obama speaks at the Janesville GM plant on 02/13/08.
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Janesville GM plant workers applaud Barack Obama during his speech at the plant on 02/13/08.
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The GM Assembly plant with Jackson St stretching across the bottom of the frame while Monterey Park is in the upper right. Photo taken in fall of 1998.
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Truck bodies line up before entering a special booth that uses lasers to take measurments checking that critical alignments meet specifications. 9/99
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Workers from GM's Job Bank work on the roof of a new pavillion they are building at the new ropes course at Blackhawk Tech on 10/23/02. They are, from left, Theresa Borkenhagen, Don Haney and Jerry Wollslair.
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Those GM workers who built the vehicles being donated to the New York Fire Department, wrote messages to them and signed their names underneath the hoods of the vehicles. 12-04-01.
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GM Plant Manager Gary Giles.
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John Collins left the Janesville General Motors Plant in a limousine for the last time as an employee after 51 years in 2006.
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Friends for nearly 20 years, Marv Wopat hugs Sandra Washington after delivering food to her Saturday morning. Washington suffered from brain aneurysms and is partially paralyzed on one side of her body. 12/19/05.
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General Motors first black superintendent Robert Hill retired in 2003 after 30 some years.
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Stacey Tropp keeps track of the money spent while Nicole Prochazka fills a shopping cart at Kmart during their toy buying for ECHO with money collected from GM employees.12-10-04
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The proposed bypass from GM will enter Beloit Avenue near Kellogg Avenue, next to Sharky's Bar & Grill.
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UAW GM EAP representative Marv Wopat smiles as he takes a breather during the food drive 12/17/05.
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Gov. Jim Doyle came to the Janesville General Motors Plant to celebrate a half million Flexible Fuel vehicles produced. 03-21-06
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Colleen Trappe of Janesville puts hamburger meat in fellow GM employee John Westendorf's bag as he goes down the line filling a bag with food for a needy family. 12/17/05.
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A Chevy Tahoe on the line at the Janesville General Motors Plant. 03-21-06
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The Sampson Tractor is on display for the tours at Janesville's General Motors Assembly Plant.
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Volunteers Dan O'Brien, Larry Keith, and Gary Magee (l-r) were hard at work on 12/04/02 assembling the frame of a small storage shed being constructed on the grounds of the Lincoln-Tallman House. The trio are GM employees.
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A long sign in support of the UAW stands in the grass outside the Janesville GM plant in September 2007.
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Bob Stelter of Beloit, and GM employee Mary Kennedy stack bottles of grape jelly in preparation for bagging during the GM Employee Assistance Program Food Drive Saturday 12/17/05.
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Using assembly line tactics, volunteers bag food during the food drive Saturday 12/17/05. A couple hundred volunteers turned out in the early morning to help out.
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James Rowland of Janesville shows his grand niece Morgan Hardy, 9, of Lake Butte Des Morts a 1940 Chevrolet 2-door Master Deluxe Coupe during the Sweet 16 Celebration at Janesville's GM plant in August 2005. He told her her grandfather used to drive the same model car to work at the Janesville plant.
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Hundreds crowded into the parking lot at the Janesville GM plant during speeches by a variety of dignitaries including Governor Jim Doyle during the Sweet 16 Celebration in August 2005.
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Marv Wopat (center) helps volunteers unload boxes of hams for the food drive Saturday 12/17/05.
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More than 300 current and past employees, families and friends of GM workers turned out on 12/20/03 to help pack and deliver food baskets for 350 area families. The volunteers assembled 1750 bags of food in about 15 minutes. The food is estimated to be enough to last 2-3 weeks per family.
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One of seven people arrested at General Motors on various drug charges. 9-27-00
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Bags and bags of groceries sit in the GM plant waiting to be delivered to families Saturday morning 12/17/05.
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The 1923 Chevy Superior.
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The Chevrolet 1939 2 door Master Deluxe Business Coupe.
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The 1946 Chevrolet 4 door Fleetmaster.
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The Chevrolet 1957 2-door Bel Air Hardtop.
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The 1968 Chevrolet Impala Convertible.
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The 1977 Chevrolet 4-door Caprice Classic.
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The 1986 Chevrolet Scottsdale K-20 series 3/4 ton truck.
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The 1999 Chevrolet Tahoe LS.
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The 2005 GMC Denali representative of the 16 millionth vehicle off the line at Janesville GM in August 2005.
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In this January 1990 photo, workers install a new sign showing production and corporate group changes at the Janesville GM plant. Formerly a part of GM’s Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group, the plant became part of the Truck & Bus Group. The plant switched from production of Chevrolet Cavalier cars to Suburbans, Blazers and other trucks.
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The General Motors plant in Janesville is being shut down after nearly 100 years of making automobiles and trucks. 2003 photo
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Rows of cab-over trucks await shipment in a storage yard south of the General Motors plant on 07/15/08.
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The General Motors plant in Janesville is being shut down after nearly 100 years of making automobiles and trucks. 2003 photo.
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UAW official Jim Beardsley addresses GM employees at a town-hall style meeting held in the plant, on 02/25/02, about the union's opposition to proposed increases in the CAFE requirements.
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GM assembly plant workers listen as various speakers outline their opposition to proposed legislation that would increase CAFE requirements and possibly threaten the production of large, poorer mileage Janesville made SUVs.
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30 year employee Earl Gretschmann was one of the first GM employees to begin walking the picket line after the UAW struck the auotmaker at 10:00am on 09-24-07.
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Employees at General Motors' Janesville Assembly plant began walking out the doors at 10:00a.m. on 09-24-07 in strike over ongoing contract negotiations between the auto manufacturing giant and the UAW.
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UAW Local 95 president-elect Brad Dutcher addresses an assemblage of politicians, UAW members and the media during a press conference at the local union hall on 06-03-08. Union and Local and state political leaders are scrambling to deal with the GM announcement of the closing of the Janesville plant.
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The Janesville General Motors assembly plant outlawed smoking in the building in the fall of 2004.
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Mark Lobben smiles as his son Joe Lobben, 2, plays with the Crash Dummies (Jake Meek) head after a production video during Take Your Child to Work Day at General Motors in Janesville in April 2003.
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Janesville's Brianna Westendorf, 11, and her dad Brian Westendorf have a race to see who can assemble their piles of frame bumper bolts together the fastest during Take Your child to Work Day at General Motors in Janesville in April 2003.
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The General Motors Assembly Plant provides a backdrop as the Craig High graduates of 2008 wait to receive their diplomas on 06/05/08.
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Doris Thom stands near the assembly line at GM in September 2004.
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Steve Geller carries a stack of children's play sets from a fully loaded trailer to ECHO in Janesville in December 2000. Volunteers unloaded toys purchased by GM workers as part of the ECHO toy drive that was to include a visit by the Weinermobile.
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Acting plant manager Mike Glinski addresses employees of the GM Assembly plant on 02/25/02 regarding proposed legislation that would significantly up the CAFE requirements and possibly endanger their jobs.
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GM empoyees gathered in the plant on 02/25/02 to listen to speakers protest proposed legislation that would raise CAFE requirements for auto manufacturers and possibly have a detrimental effect on the Janesville asembly plant.
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Whats the future of UAW Local 95 when the GM plant closes?
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Minutes after the 10:00 a.m. walkout at the Janesville General Motors Assembly plant, UAW member Mike Hanlon had joined others in walking a picket line outside the facility.
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About 60 members of the Wisconsin Alumni Association were in Janesville in November 2007 and toured the GM assembly plant. The group later had a roundtable discussion of their family ties to the plant.
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The Rock County Historical Society volunteers and staff unloaded a Samson model m tractor and a 1922 Samson 3/4 ton truck, both built in Janesville. Samson was a precursor to the General Motors assembly plant in the city.
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General Motors has donated a new Tahoe to The Nature Conservancy that has been wrapped with the artwork of Janesville school children. The E85 fueled truck was unveiled at a ceremony held at the school district offices in June 2006.
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General Motors has donated a new Tahoe to The Nature Conservancy that has been wrapped with the artwork of Janesville school children. The E85 fueled truck was unveiled at a ceremony held at the school district offices in June 2006.
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Photo By: Bill Olmsted
General Motors has donated a new Tahoe to The Nature Conservancy that has been wrapped with the artwork of Janesville school children. The E85 fueled truck was unveiled at a ceremony held at the school district offices June 2006.
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