GM is going to layoff 1171 in Lansing due to moving 800 jobs in Tenn.

[CK_John]

Spring Hill plant about 40 miles south of Nashville and quit making cars in Australia this year.

General Motors Co. said Monday it will cut the third shift at its Lansing Delta Township assembly plant, effective May 12.

Monday’s move follows two other shift reductions in recent months at GM assembly plants in Michigan, bringing the total workers affected by the changes to some 3,200 hourly and salaried employees. A number of those workers will be laid off, while others may have been transferred to other plants.

The shift reduction will affect about 1,100 hourly and salaried employees at the plant, GM spokeswoman Erin Davis said. GM expects the number who will be laid off will be less than that figure after it places eligible workers into open positions at other plants. A WARN notice filed with the Michigan Workforce Development Agency put that number at up to 1,171.

Read more:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2017/03/06/gm-cut-third-shift-lansing-delta-township/98805626/

[yeoman6987]

1. A lot of companies going to Tennessee

The good news is the workers who move might be democratic voters which is good for Tennessee in the long run. Not good for Michigan obviously.

[drray23]

2. Is that because unions are weak or non existent in the south ?

I read an article recently about how workers somewhere in a southern state rejected calls to have an union.

[guillaumeb]

3. There are very few unions in Southern plantation style economies.

Coal mining was a strongly unionized job, but those unions are nearly all gone due to corporate buyouts and automation.

[CK_John]

9. Unions are weak due to they don't have to join or pay dues.

[sarcasmo]

10. Start at 10 an hour in Tennessee versus 15-17 hour in Michigan. Sad sack shit.

[Go Vols]

14. Its been Union since the plant opened in 1990

Despite the rejuvenated auto industry, the pay and benefits are substantially less than they were before the Great Recession.

The wage concession was part of a deal GM struck with the UAW in the depths of the recession. Employees come in at just shy of $16 an hour. Full-fledged workers make close to $30.

http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/even-about-half-pay-gm-still-attracts-job-seekers-spring-hill#stream/0

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Anything in Lansing is probably an old Oldsmobile plant.

The demise of Oldsmobile was announced on December 12, 2000. It was the other bad thing that was announced that day.

Oldsmobile had been in Lansing since the beginning of time.

Spring Hill is a Saturn facility. That opened up in 1994, I'm thinking.

[d_r]

5. The delta township plant

Is newer than Oldsmobile, just fwiw, was built in 2006.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. A new plant, built in 2006? I did not know that. Thanks. NT

[d_r]

7. Yeah

It seems weird that it is 10 years old but I want to say "new." It was a big deal at the time because the location in delta township is actually a good ways out of Lansing but it is like a little island of Lansing city limits.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. How many of those 800

will actually make the move. Seen this before,most lose their Seniority when transferring out of state or have to start at the bottom as a new hire. And good luck with that. Again if you 20 something,you might be able to catch on. And then you are last in first out.

[CK_John]

11. GM is just cancelling production in Australia and will be building them

Tenn.

Then Trump is saying that they are bring 800 jobs back to the US.

IMO, GM is getting ready for driverless and electric cars that will mostly be owned by Uber and Lyft.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Understand GM quit Australia .

[MichMan]

13. Lots of misinformation in the comments here

I wish people wouldn't make uninformed comments. The Lansing plant built 3 different SUV models; Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia. The Acadia is being redesigned and will be built in Spring Hill, Tn. Therefore the Lansing plant no longer needs 3 shifts.

These are all UAW employees making the same wages. They do have seniority rights to take open positions in other GM plants. I don't work for GM, but as far as I know they do not lose any seniority, but cannot displace workers already at those plants.