Return of 'third shift' for automakers brings hope, economic ripple effect

[Playinghardball]

Anthony Pylant, an idled auto worker from Tennessee, was relieved and excited when he got a letter that a General Motors assembly plant in Flint, Mich., was adding a third shift.

“You don’t know what you got until it’s gone and man, we didn’t realize what we had, you know, until we lost it,” Pylant said.

In 2009, the Spring Hill, Tenn., GM plant where Pylant worked shut down. Pylant searched for work for two years, but nothing he found matched the money or benefits he had before he was laid off.

“It’s sort of a pride thing,” Pylant said. “It really hurt, so when this came up. It was like, I got to do what I know how to do, you know.”

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[rustydog]

1. If they'd just let the auto industry die like Romney wanted...

America would be so much better today, right?
We can only hope this is a corner the industry has turned and maybe, just maybe the road will get a little smoother for hard-working Americans who never gave up.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I wonder if the UAW is in the picture anywhere.

[NNN0LHI]

3. The UAW is who negotiated the benefit for us to transfer to other plants

I had to do the same thing three times to get enough time in to qualify for a retirement. I was an autoworker gypsy moving my family around the country for about ten years. It was no fun either.

Don

[Ikonoklast]

4. I drove past the Chrysler Twinsburg Stamping Plant this morning...or what's left of it.

It is meeting the same fate as the St. Louis Assembly Plant that I'll drive past tomorrow...torn down, and sold for scrap.

Those jobs are gone forever.

The huge lot adjacent to the assembly plant where all the car carriers were marshalled is empty.

The LTL freight terminals there run by the large trucking companies are empty.

All of the jobs ancillary to those facilities are gone.

Millions in payroll, millions in taxes paid, tens of thousands no longer employed.



Anyone that wanted the car companies to fail would have seen the deepest depression this nation would have ever endured, and we might never have come back out of it.