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General Motors is laying off 1,314 employees at manufacturing plants in Michigan, including 945 at the Orion Assembly Subsystems Plant and 369 at the Lansing Grand River Assembly/Stamping and Lansing Regional Stamping. The layoffs come months after reaching a new labor contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW). GM plans to offer impacted employees jobs elsewhere in the company.
Four days after cyclone Michaung hit the coast of Chennai, India, hundreds of people remain stranded and some manufacturing plants in the tech-and-auto hub district are still closed. At least 14 people have died in the flooding, and low-lying areas are still inundated. Volunteers are providing food and supplies to those stuck in their homes, while some schools and colleges have been converted into temporary shelters. The damage to infrastructure has raised concerns about the city's ability to handle extreme weather, although experts have noted that better stormwater drainage systems may not have prevented the flooding caused by heavy rains.