Holden workers hearing rescue plans Workers at Holden are meeting union officials to keep the Adelaide car-making plant in operation. WORKERS at Holden are meeting union officials on Monday to consider plans to keep the Adelaide car-making plant in operation. Australian Manufacturing Workers Union state secretary John Camillo says workers will be brought up to date with discussions with the company in recent weeks. They will also hear details of a plan the union has put to management, including Holden turning its books over to an independent expert for assessment. Mr Camillo says the company has agreed to that proposal and it is hoped recommendations will flow from the review by the end of July. "There are quite a number of issues the company has put on the table," Mr Camillo told radio 5AA. We've asked them to put everything on the table in regard to discussing how we go forward. Holden recently told its assembly line staff that it needed to slash costs to ensure it could continue to build vehicles in Australia. It has asked workers to consider a number of measures, including possible pay cuts, with a vote to be held in August. The cost cutting comes on top of moves to axe 400 staff at the Adelaide assembly operations, with the reductions expected to come from voluntary redundancies later this year.