General Motors is giving nearly 800 workers at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant a seven-month reprieve.

GM had said it will still indefinitely idle the plant, along with four other GM facilities in North America, including the Warren Transmission plant, as part of a broader restructuring move that GM announced on Nov. 26.

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Detroit-Hamtramck was slated to idle in June, but GM said production of the Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac CT6 sedans will extend into January 2020.

The plant also built the Chevrolet Volt electric hybrid sedan and the Buick LaCrosse sedan. Production of the both cars ended Feb. 15, a GM spokesman said.

About 700 hourly and 75 salaried employees work at the plant in production of the CT6 and Impala, "so those employees will continue with this news," said Dan Flores, GM spokesman.

Flores said 586 employees from Detroit-Hamtramck have transferred to Flint Assembly. The openings at Flint will largely be filled by the end of the first quarter, he said, but anyone at Detroit-Hamtramck can apply for consideration for transfer opportunities.

GM is extending the production of the CT6 to keep key Cadillac technology, such as the Blackwing Twin-Turbo V-8 and Super Cruise, in the marketplace. Impalas will continue to be manufactured to balance production within the factory.

The UAW praised the move.

“For the UAW brothers and sisters at Hamtramck, today is a sense of relief for their families and the community," UAW President Gary Jones and UAW Vice President Terry Dittes said in a joint statement. "For those UAW brothers and sisters at GM Warren Transmission Operations, GM Lordstown Assembly and in the GM GPS Baltimore plant in Maryland (the other North American plants to be idled), let me reiterate that the UAW will leave no stone unturned in seeking to keep your plants open and we hope today’s news brings a measure of hope as we continue that important work."

The UAW, in its statement, asked for continued support for workers in the three other facilities it is fighting to keep running. The fourth is in Oshawa, Ontario, which falls to Unifor, Canada's auto workers union.

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