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GM will halt Bochum output after 2016: Works committee

US auto giant General Motors has decided to stop auto manufacturing at its Opel plant in Bochum, western Germany, after 2016, the head of the works committee said on Friday, a move that could mean the plant will close.

A General Motors' worker assembles a 2013 Cadillac ATS on the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan, in July 2012. US auto giant General Motors has decided to stop auto manufacturing at its Opel plant in Bochum, western Germany, after 2016, the head of the works committee said a move that could mean the plant will close.

"Management announced that there will be no more auto production after 2016," at the plant which employs 3,000 people, works committee chief Rainer Einenkel said, adding that the decision would be discussed by the committee on Monday.

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