The company said the expansionwill generate 750 jobsfor the Flintplant, whichmakes ChevroletSilverado andGMC Sierra pickups and has been operating on twoshifts per day.
Brody Shores, 20, a junior from Alexandria, Louisiana, volunteered two overnight shifts, taking on tasks such as helping frail and weary nursing home residents arriving by bus, organizing supplies of clothes and making sandwiches for evacuees.
Industrial action centred ontwo specific issues - the introduction of afternoon shifts and worries about redundancies - but it also stemmed from a wider dispute.