GM bringing back 480 workers to Spring Hill plant

[johnaries]

Remember when Obama "bailed out" GM?

GM bringing back 480 workers to Spring Hill plant

About 480 workers will be recalled as GM plans to invest $483 million to build the next generation of the company's Ecotec four-cylinder engine. The plant already builds three four-cylinder engines.

The automaker laid off about 2,000 workers at Spring Hill last year and about 800 of those workers have relocated to GM plants in other states.

About 1,000 retired, active and laid off workers gathered Friday to hear from GM officials, Gov. Phil Bredesen and others. Also present were U.S. Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander and U.S. Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Lincoln Davis.
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A handful of boos erupted from the workers when Corker showed up. They apparently were still upset over Corker's opposition to bailouts for the auto industry and his push to get the United Auto Workers to agree to wage and benefit concessions.

They booed Corker! :rofl:

[jaxx]

1. Good news!

Around here the railroad has called back all on layoff and is hiring....all because shipping is picking back up and the economy is moving forward.

[Hannah Bell]

7. see here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9160090&mesg_id=9165440

[DainBramaged]

2. A good thing!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. Tennessee was getting ready to sue GM before the bankruptcy

GM fucked over Tennessee after pocketing incentives to produce the Chevy Traverse SUV at Spring Hill only to turn around and send the Traverse back to Michigan.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[DainBramaged]

5. A Sunday big D kick for Union rule!

[Hannah Bell]

6. Now here's the backstory: those promised jobs don't come online until 2012 & maybe never.

From Factory Rat:

If the truth be know careful reading will show you these promised jobs are not happening until 2012 at which time things could and probably will change. The current workforce is planning a layoff of over 200 prior to this 2012 date and currently has a layoff scheduled which will eat up half the immediate 30 jobs and half the promised 2012 jobs will go to people still working in the plant today while hundreds will lose their benefits and unemployment well before the 2012 date.

This announcement was nothing more than political hoopla to misdirect the public from the fact that most the bailout money is going to overseas investments. The american worker is getting a shaft again from the now Company collusion UAW. With the VEBA and their fat bonuses resting on the fate of GM worldwide vs representing the workers they have set up one of the biggest conflict of interest charges ever.

http://www.factoryrat.com/factoryrat/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=13073


The more I think of this the angrier I get. Let us not forget the part about it is all "contingent on state incentives" This local leadership should be ashamed of themselves! How could you get peoples hopes up them feed them this bunch of crap!

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Jerry Jones this was just posted on factory rat, could this happen to springhill also?:Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 4 : 09 Post subject:

GM did the same hype in Baltimore Powertrain of adding 200 jobs. The GM president, governer, senator, congressman, UAW..etc.

Turns out that the work was for 2012 and had a special agreement with ...the UAW to hire 70 new employees at a even lower rate of $13.50 per hour for the new work. The other 130 were engineers in Michigan. The truth about the announcement didn't come out until a month after the announcement.

The local Union and International were swamped with calls of when do we comeback and they finally broke down and said the jobs are not for traditional employees on layoff. The truth came out way after all the media hype was over. Hopefully there are no unmentioned special agreements with the spring hill announcement.

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John Jacobs I wonder if the same thing is going to be pulled at the springhill plant with the 400 jobs they are suppose to get in 2012 with the engine. Leave the members laid off and bring in tier two for the work. It sounds like a pattern the the international is falling into with the company·

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