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General Motors Says It Needs 2,700 Workers At Other US Manufacturing Plants

Perhaps General Motors wasn’t prepared for the blowback it received after it announced in November that it would idle four production facilities in the United States.

On Friday, the automaker provided an update on the unfolding situation and said it needs 2,700 workers at other U.S. plants. These positions are transfer opportunities for the thousands of United Auto Worker employees that will be affected by the Lordstown and Detroit-Hamtramck idling. Workers at the transmission plants in Michigan and Maryland are also up for transfer opportunities, according to the automaker.

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CEO Mary Barra said in a statement:

Strong U.S. and Canadian economies enable us to provide these opportunities now as we position General Motors for long-term success. Our focus remains on providing interested employees options to transition including job opportunities at other GM plants. We remain committed to working with local government officials, our unions and each individual to find appropriate opportunities for them.

The plants in need of additional workers are:

GM said 2,800 production workers are affected by the announcement that the automaker will idle the facilities and 1,100 have already applied to transfer to a new facility.

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The news contrasts a comment that David Green, UAW Local 1112 President. He told the Detroit Free Press in a Friday report that 700 workers from previous Lordstown layoffs haven’t been able to transfer and said it’s not possible to simply move every single worker and their families.

“GM says that because they want to reframe it. But they can’t just relocate those people,” Green said.

The automaker said the 2,700 positions reflect openings the automaker needs to fill as it prepares for new vehicles launches in 2019.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. If you support everything Trump stands for, then you will move your family to get a job, right? Trump had to move from his family home (with, as is tradition, the family name in gold letters 5 yards high) to a small white house in another city so that he could continue to earn money to pay his debts and be a responsible citizen. So should these workers, right?

    Trump is pumping the economy! For house moving companies. For U-Haul. For box companies. Folks up and down America have to move house, move city, move everything just to get a job that might last a week or two if they’re lucky.

    It’s so funny watching old folks telling young kids that they have to move-move-move to keep up with opportunities, but old folks having to move because their job got traded by Wall St is somehow “wrong”. Hey assembly-line-worker, there’s lots of jobs in bond-trading in NY, why don’t you just get one of those?

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    1. Bond trading on Wall St = responsible productivity, a worthwhile job.

      Manufacturing complex engineering that helps real Americans and can provide for our military in war = lazy entitled folks certain to end up on welfare.

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      1. And yet Failed St. and thier loser “investors” were the #1 SNAP recipients in 2008-09 from uncle suga bailout… BK 4 time in 90 years isn’t a good stat….

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  2. I’m a Baby Boomer. I clearly remember when my dad was in sales that we moved quite a bit so that he could remain employed in the early 1960s. We lived in Pittsburgh, PA; Monroe, LA; Shreveport, LA; and finally Dallas, TX so he could continue to work. We always wound up renting a truck and moving ourselves. It’s lovely to not have to move to maintain a career, but not always possible.

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  3. More of Barra’s BS? Yeah, sure, pickup and move your family while leaving family & friends behind to move to another state because GM killed jobs where workers exist/SURVIVE rather than find a way to create NEW jobs there, right? While Barrass gets her $22 MILLION bonus to stay put while screwing the ACTUAL working family……Raise the BS flag and BOYCOTT THE GM LEACHES!!! Yeah, let’s import more from china, right?!!
    The whole thing stinks to the heavens and is BS!!! Merry F’n Christmas ya’ corporate @$$holes, not. Sooo disgusted….

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