HTN: GM Chair Talks Tonawanda

The chairman of General Motors says he is optimistic about the future of the company's plant in Tonawanda. Richard Wagoner told reporters Tuesday there are no plans to shutter at the site. The Tonawanda facility employs about 13-hundred people, but 400 have been laid off because of the slowing auto industry. Wagoner says while he's confident in the Tonawanda plant, it may be run far differently in the future as the industry seeks to turn around. The GM chairman suggested a two-tier employment system where the company could hire many workers in boom times and more easily let them go as numbers decline.