Posted on 12/07/2018 5:48:24 PM PST by Eddie01
Full Title: Could Elon Musk save the jobs of GM workers? Tesla founder 'would be interested' in taking over General Motors' idled factories
Elon Musk is eyeing General Motors' once-occupied plants.
The billionaire tech mogul said it's 'possible that [Tesla] would be open' to taking over automakers' old plants, such as the five factories closed by GM last month.
The comments came during Musk's wide-ranging interview with CBS' '60 Minutes.'
GM CEO Mary Barra announced in November that the car manufacturer would close five factories in North America and lay off some 14,700 workers as a result.
Musk indicated that Tesla could potentially look at scooping up the factories, joining a list of others who have indicated interest in creating jobs there in the wake of GM's decision.
'It's possible that we would be interested...that we would take it over,' Musk told interviewer Leslie Stahl.
Musk has purchased idled factories from other carmakers in the past.
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BAZINGA !
Enough with this scammer "6 Billion Dollar Man"
So the gov can continue to subsidize his crap? Yeah good luck
He always needs a new project AKA scam to stay afloat
Michigan has been a Right-to-Work state since 2013. He could setup a no-union plant and probably pay the employees a rate comparable to the hires at GM and Ford. The last UAW contracts setup a two-tier pay system for long term employees vs new hires.
Ed
Some of the plants, especially the ones that GM shut down, were built in the 1920s and had no air conditioning and would be a huge expense to refit them. That is why most of them were torn down.
Headline in 12/8/18 in Cleveland.com, an online product of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper.
He must have read my post #16 Friday night.
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