General Motors is expecting the need for new hires

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General Motors is expecting the need for new hires
04/22/2010, 6:47 AM By Mark Kleis

In what General Motor’s President is pointing towards as a signal of recovery, GM says that it is nearing the point in which it will need to begin hiring more hourly workers. GM says this need stems from increased demand for its vehicles, and the return of second and third shifts to some plants.


According to the Detroit News, GM’s production levels have risen to a level that will soon require the addition of new, lower-paid hourly workers.

GM President, Mark Reuss, says that the automaker’s continual need to increase production levels as a result of increased demand has the automaker approaching the point in which it will surpass the need for laid off workers. GM is adding third shifts at key manufacturing plants, which will result in the need for additional labor in the near future.

Once GM reinstates the laid off workers, and begins to search for new hires, it will do so at the lower $14 per hour rate it negotiated with the United Auto Workers union during 2007 negotiations. The new hires will also received reduced benefits compared to long-term staff.

“When you start talking about people and livelihoods and jobs and families and adding more of those, you want to do it in a way that we’re sure what we’re doing is absolutely needed by the company for a long period of time,” said Reuss.

Reuss also believes that the path GM is taking will lead to responsible, profitable and disciplined growth.

As the Detroit News points out, GM has invested roughly $1.5 billion across 20 U.S. and Canadian facilities and plants, while restoring or creating 7,500 jobs since emerging from bankruptcy in July 2009.

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