Adelaide Holden to Shut Down for 25 Days

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Workers employed at Holden's plant in northern Adelaide will lose more work, following the car maker's decision to schedule another 25 days of production shutdowns.

The production line closures, to be spread across the first three months of next year, are the result of poor sales amid the global economic crisis, the Manufacturing Workers Union said.

Holden will make 15,000 fewer cars because of the production slowdown.

The car maker's 3,400 workers in South Australia have already had several days off in recent weeks.

Holden official Andrea Matthews assured workers no jobs were currently at risk.

"We always say there's no guarantees in the car industry but what we have preferred to do is introduce these extra non-production days rather than remove jobs," she told ABC Radio.

"We think our workers clearly prefer this as well."

Ms Matthews said Holden was committed to maintaining a manufacturing presence at Elizabeth and was confident of the future.

Not good news, I now we don't like Holden, but we must have sympathy for the workers.