General Motors Still Looking To Hire Workers At Flint Assembly Plant
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In early June, it was reported that General Motors was struggling to fill the 400 temporary positions it had available at its Flint Assembly plant in Michigan. While the automaker has made some progress filling those positions, it is still trying to attract temp workers at the facility, with 200 open positions still yet to be filled.
According to MLive, the job fair held at Flint Assembly last month helped fill about 200 positions at the plant, but that only accounts for roughly half of the 400 positions it had open. There are still about 200 positions left to hire for, with GM urging anyone interested to apply in person or online. The Flint plant builds the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups.
“Many people who waited in line at the job fair are now members of the Flint Assembly team,” Ed Duby, Flint Assembly plant executive, told MLive this week. “Although the fair will fill most of our openings, we are still looking for people to become part of the team.”
“I really want to encourage anyone looking for a job at a great company, building a world-class truck, to take a look at the job requirements and fill out an application,” Duby added.
Temp roles at Flint Assembly pay $16.67 an hour, with employees eligible for health care and paid holidays after 90 days of employment. Duby told MLive applicants must be willing to work any day, including weekends, and on any of the plant’s three shifts. Applicants will also be required to pass a drug test and a background check. Temp employees can be hired on as full-time workers after two years of service, with the last 12 months of the two-year period served as a full-time temp.
The UAW had previously suggested GM remove its drug testing requirement for temp applicants in a bid to attract more workers. Michigan legalized recreational use of Marijuana back in 2018, while medical use of marijuana has been legal in the state since 2008.
“You’ve got this candidate pool that know they can smoke marijuana in the evening rather than having a drink,” UAW Local 595 Shop Chairman Eric Welter said last month. “It’s kind of silly to lose good workers. Marijuana doesn’t create the problems that opioids, cocaine and other drugs do.”
GM did not publicly respond to the UAW’s request to drop the mandatory drug test and as of now, temp applicants at Flint Assembly will be tested.
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Let people smoke weed… Or better yet pay them more… $16 an hour is garbage pay for that job. Especially when a stoner could make $15 just showing up at McDonalds or Amazon.
Those jobs are also part time, at least for some unspecified duration. I showed both my sons an article about this a month ago or so, and they both declined as they are making better money working full time somewhere else.
Not to mention, neither of them wants to drive into Flint. I don’t blame them.
In all fairness, this plant is located in the part of Flint that is not so bad. The rest of the city, unfortunately, resembles a third world country.
Forget Flint. Forget driving into michigan. Hard pass.
I wasn’t suggesting people would come to Michigan to go work at GM in Flint.
I’m just saying it isn’t even competitive enough with other jobs in the area to attract workers.
$16.67 is ok but not a good rate. What do they make in Mexico at the GMC terrain plant? I always thought if you want the best pay the best. I would rather not have pot smokers making my truck.
$16.67/hr with no retirement or guarantee of a permanent job no matter how hard you work is horrible in many parts of the USA when In’n’ Out and other fastfood joints start at $18/hr with $500-$1000 signing bonuses.
If you live in the sticks and all your family works there maybe, but having a tier system doesn’t cut it nowadays with better options, shifts/hours and less wear and tear on your bodies.
Offer free weed so they can be happily stoned while they attempt to build trucks,just like good old uaw days.
If only it wasn’t in Flint and paid me more than what I make at my restaurant gig. I could see myself doing this. I have a degree in culinary arts and restaurant management and I love cooking but doing just about ANYTHING for a living in the auto industry would be a passion. I could eventually move around within the company. Too bad I also currently reside in Chicago.
From what I hear, they’re struggling to find people who are (A) willing to work in Flint, (B) willing to accept $15/hr as a temp with basically no real benefits, and (C) capable of passing a drug test. (C) in particular has been the real kicker.
Getting people to put down their phones long enough to train on a job is a big issue. People seem to think automobile assembly is just sitting around and pushing a button once in a while. It’s great when someone asks “I have to do that!?” Yup, several thousand times in an 8 hour shift, depending on what your doing. Manufacturing is not for everyone.
Maybe if the pay was $20hr. With a path to full-time and benefits people would apply.
Hard to find good reliable people to work when they are being paid to stay at home.
Why wait 2 years to be part of the uaw. I hear it’s like winning a lottery to be asked into it. Than if truck sales drop your the first to be layer off
I worked at moraine assembly for 14 years. We built the trailblazer. We were closed and 08 and thousand lost there job and no call back rights because uaw blocked us iue employees taking there people job. They should let past workers who loved there job apply
How can the UAW fight for higher wages and benefits for their members while at the same time offering $15/hour jobs and advocating for the removal of drug testing? Are highly paid, highly skilled workers necessary to build cars and trucks or not? Confusing.
Why all the comments about $15/hr? Article states “Temp roles at Flint Assembly pay $16.67 an hour, with employees eligible for health care and paid holidays after 90 days of employment.”
No vision/dental benefits and no retirement/bonuses. And NO guarantee of anything else. Sure you have to start at the bottom, but with rising cost of living and inflation $16.67 doesn’t go far.
Unless you live at home with mommy you’ll never afford to buy a GM vehicle at that rate.
Bring back a pension, a real benefit. It will make people want to stay there. I moved for GM, twice. for that reason. Did not want to give up my benefits. All the while, I never got a dime for moving, relocating. Do that too. Weed out the riff-raff some. I know of several people who gave up their GM job because they did not want to move. I went from Mich. to Mo.. Never looked back. And give these people a raise.
So many of you ahole commenters either can’t read or comprehend.
“General Motors was struggling to fill the 400 temporary positions” .
Temp workers never ever get a high wage. It COULD lead into full-time position…maybe.
How hard is that for you dopers to UNDERSTAND??
The only Ahole is YOU LOSER, How hard is it to understand it’s not worth it to you, maybe YOU are a LOSER with no life or self respect. BTW way to slander people with the dope reference you IDIOT !!!
Usually temp hires that are locked in at a specific rate make about the same amount of money an hour or just slightly more once they become permanent. And $16 almost $17 an hour is nothing these days. You can’t raise a family or let alone live by yourself renting an apartment in states like California or even Michigan for that kind of wage.
After taxes are taking out, these people are netting under $30K a year which is nothing.
A decent livable wage where you can take care of yourself, your family pay a reasonable mortgage, and still have money left over, one needs to make well over $30 an hour or more to be ok. People never consider taxes or commute times and gas into the equation. That truly has the biggest factor on ones income.
I honestly wouldn’t want to buy a vehicle from a company that uses low paying temp workers and don’t need to take a drug test to get hired. Imagine all of the quality control problems that will likely occur from certain workers being stoned out of their minds?
No thanks GM.
16.67 is nothing. for this type of industry starting pay should at least be 22.00 an hour
I would go but working all those different shifts is what gets me i dont mind weekends. The pay is ok for part time but two years before you get hired on thats a problem also for me