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IMMI, Blue Bird Celebrate Opening of New Manufacturing Plant in Macon, Georgia

IMMI, Blue Bird Celebrate Opening of New Manufacturing Plant in Macon, Georgia School Transportation News Industry Releases ...

Georgia-based bus company expands manufacturing in Macon

IMMI and Blue Bird Corporation, which is based in Georgia, opened a new manufacturing plant in Macon, which the companies ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Blue Bird gets $80 million to convert old plant to make electric buses

Blue Bird, the iconic Georgia bus-maker, is receiving $80 million from the federal government as part of a $1.7 billion effort to convert shuttered auto factories into manufacturing and assembly ...

Blue Bird Corp. partner opens new facility in Macon to manufacture bus seats

Preview this article 1 min The new plant will create at least 80 jobs. 2026 Leaders in Corporate Citizenship Awards Honoring individuals who have found the perfect intersection of social good and ...
The Telegraph

U.S. Labor Secretary visits Blue Bird facilities following historic union contract

United States Deputy Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su addresses event attendees while celebrating Blue Bird’s union contract on Friday, July 19, 2024, at the Blue Bird manufacturing plant in Fort ...
The Telegraph

Middle GA’s Blue Bird is expecting $1B to build electric buses. Could that be at risk?

On May 12, the CEO of Blue Bird delivered good news to his company’s shareholders. The company, one of the largest school bus manufacturers in the United States, enjoyed its first profitable quarter ...
Detroit News

Bus maker Blue Bird embraces an electrified future

The site where Muhammad Ali’s motor home was built will soon be humming again. Not that The Greatest was the only one to snap up a WanderLodge back in the day when Blue Bird workers were churning out ...
Inside EVs

Blue Bird Scales Up Electric School Bus Production With New Facility

School bus manufacturer Blue Bird has inaugurated what it calls the Electric Vehicle Build-Up Center on the grounds of its US manufacturing plant in Fort Valley, Georgia. The 40,000-square-foot ...
WMAZ

Blue Bird bus manufacturer lays off over 100 workers, citing supply chain issues and pandemic

FORT VALLEY, Ga. — The Blue Bird Corporation is one of Peach County's major employers and an economic driver. After an unexpected layoff put more than 100 people out of work, some are asking what ...
The New York Times

Flush With Federal Money, Strings Attached, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize

Friday’s victory by the United Steelworkers at a factory building electric school buses was a test for Democratic hopes that clean-energy funding from Washington could bolster organized labor. By ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Workers at Georgia school bus maker Blue Bird vote to unionize

FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) — Workers in Georgia at one of the nation's largest school bus manufacturers have voted to unionize. Employees at Blue Bird Corp. chose to be represented by the United ...