1.   Automakers say they need to settle contingency plans in the next month to take advantage of summer production shutdowns for training.

2.   Automotive sales might have been held back because of temporary shortages associated with summer production shutdowns, analysts said.

3.   Even within manufacturing, the extent of summer shutdowns has always varied by industry, with automakers the most willing to close.

4.   Rather than using the summer shutdown to retool for new models, Volkswagen will do this while production continues, Meurer said.

5.   Talks were recessed this week for normal summer shutdowns by automakers.

6.   The result is an ugly, litigious summer shutdown that could get worse.

7.   The summer shutdown at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Ala., is hardly a time of inactivity.

8.   The Sudbury mining complex is on annual summer shutdown until the end of July.

9.   The weekly report reflected, in part, the return of auto workers from summer shutdowns for plant maintenance and retooling.

10.   U.S. factories posted their largest employment downturn in more than three years, reflecting the summer shutdown of auto plants and layoffs in the aircraft industry.