Posted on 11/03/2009 2:23:44 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
(AP) FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said the state is preparing for an increase in unemployment claims once the General Motors Corp. assembly plant in Spring Hill closes its doors later this month.
The governor told reporters Tuesday that the state did its best to try to persuade GM to keep the plant open but that "it was probably always a hopeless quest."
The plant was one of three finalists to build a new small car for GM, but the company ultimately chose a plant in Michigan.
Auto assembly at Spring Hill is scheduled to cease around Thanksgiving, idling about 2,000 employees, though about 500 workers will continue in other parts of the complex that will remain in operation.
Springhill is where the Saturn line of cars were once made. Great cars too bad GM had their heads so far up their butts they couldn’t see straight
Just the beginning...
Add that to the *winning* state, MI, & voila'.
It all makes sense.
Pathetic, in the extreme.
New plant in Michigan....GM is hopeless.
We lost almost 5,000 folks in Fremont, Calif., which is a town next to San Jose, at a joint Toyota/GM plant they called NUMMI. they built the Toyota Tacoma P/U and some other GM junkster nobody paid attention to.
At least your Governor tried to keep jobs in his state. If Arnold said anything to Toyota or GM, I never saw it. Not that it would have done any good anyway.
However, the plant at Spring Hill Saturn is union, United Auto Workers Local 1853.
Michigan is giving huge tax breaks to any company that can keep a decent pile of employees there for a few years. Land for a new design campus virtually tax free.
And I believe Peterbuilt closed a Tennessee plant but consolidated to a Texas plant. The former was union and the latter is not.
Maybe it was Kenworth. But, they’re both Paccar...
Corporate welfare. Many southern states are guilty of it too.
Peterbuilt...
>>Gov. Bredesen: Keeping GM In Tennessee Was ‘Hopeless Quest’<<
So they got the “change” part but passe on “hope”?
Yes they closed the plant in Madison. Oddly the workers spent more time on strike that building trucks :)
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Not at the end of the month, it ain't.
Tennessee went almost 60% for McCain. Considering that the population is about 17% black and about 3% other minorities, and that the non-white voters probably voted for Obama at the same rate as in other states, the white vote must have been close to 75% for McCain.
Right. The law doesn't forbid unions but it forbids closed shops—compulsory union membership for workers in unionized shops.
This decision to idle Springhill is based on partisan politics and Soviet-style central planning. Michigan is seen as in more dire need of jobs than Tennessee. GM just finished an almost $1 billion retooling of Springhill.
Now they will spend another billion for the same reconfiguration of the Michigan plant.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/27/spring-hills-hopes-dashed/
No problem, the government has plenty of money to waste.
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