GM Adds Third Shift; 750 Jobs Created

GM is giving back to American workers. With sales slowly picking up, General Motors Co. will be adding a third shift to the Flint Assembly plant; this should create 750 for workers who’d been previously laid off. The Wall Street Journal has more;

The move will add to the 2,100 hourly and salaried employees at the facility, which produces Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty pickup trucks. GM North America President Mark Reuss said it was a “response to customer demand” for the vehicles.

New employees are expected to begin arriving in the second quarter, before the shift’s anticipated start in the following period. Initial openings will be filled by laid-off employees working at other facilities, followed by laid-off employees in the area. GM doesn’t plan to hire new employees to fill the positions.

In November, the company reported it earned $2 billion in the third quarter, marking a third-straight quarterly profit as it sold more pickup trucks and consumers paid higher prices for its vehicles.

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