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New Food Processing Plant May Provide Opportunity For Displaced Holden Workers

Over 4,000 workers employed by Holden are set to be unemployed after the brand’s plant in North Adelaide shuts its doors for good in 2017. Though, as the Australian dollar continues to tumble in value, Holden has announced it will be retaining more of its upper-level engineers than previously thought.

But, for the blokes working the assembly line, there is a ray of hope, too. Thomas Foods International has signed an agreement with a Thailand-based group to develop a new food processing center, and chief executive Darren Thomas says North Adelaide is looking like a likely home for the facility.

“This investment will be significant,” Thomas told reporters. “It will be in the millions of dollars and the jobs will be there, and they’ll be significant as well.

“There has been a lot of talk about the northern suburbs….it would be a logical choice to be looking there.”

The state government, as well as Holden itself, are providing job training and employment assistance to individuals who will be laid off once Australian auto manufacturing ceases but, this latest piece of news may be the best information yet for distressed soon to be ex-Holden employees.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Always sad to hear about people loosing their jobs. My dad lost his after 30 years with his company. They moved production to Tennessee where it was cheaper…

    Best part about it though? Him and a few other peasants met w/ previous managers and started a new torque converter company and the OLD company is reaching out to them for help… because they know they do good work.
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  2. The fact is that loss many times is the start of even better things If you really go about it right. I got laid off on a job and ended up with a much better company and a much better job. I was bitter at first but now I am so grateful they laid me off.

    One needs to look at these thing not as the end of one thing but the beginning of a new opportunity. I know it does not always work that way but often life is what you make of it and opportunity needs to be grabbed not waited on.

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  3. Here are highly skilled automobile manufacturing workers , now going to work in a food processing plant . How can anyone not feel sad and mad about this end result to this long running once propering major company . Personally speaking , GM’s input here and the decisions it made need to be covered by a non fiction book . Seriously , dismantling this company must be examined , if just to make sure it doesn’t happen again ! Apparently , they are retaining some engineers , but the skilled factory men and ultimately their families are disposable….how often do you read about this happening , over and over ??

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