DETROIT - General Motors co. will add 2,500 jobs in a Detroit-area plant, invest$ 69 million for the facility to create two new Chevrolet sedans.
The factory, which spans the border between Detroit and the small enclave of Hamtramck, now makes Chevrolet Volt and European counterpart, the Opel Ampera. GM announced on Wednesday that can update the work, for you around the clock to make the new Malibu run mid-sized car and a newly designed Impala, a large saloon.
About 1,200 jobs are new employees remember as GM still has, 1,300 laid-off workers in the United States but in Michigan, one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, the jobs are big news.
The company gave no time frame for new people rent or referring to laid-off workers. It said new hires at the plant are $14 per hour, about half the rate veteran United Auto workers union members work around.
The jobs are to create part of a larger GM expansion or to hold some 4,000 jobs by investing $2 billion in 17 factories in the United States GM announced already more jobs at plants in bowling green, Kentucky; Toledo, Ohio; and flint and Bay City, Michigan
"This filling system with new work is very satisfying because GM is our rebuild goal this city," said Mark Reuss, North American President of the company, in a statement.
GM said last week shut it Detroit-Hamtramck plant for four weeks starting in June, reconfigure it Volt and Ampera production of 16,000 cars per year 60,000 next year to strong demand would increase. It allows also GM, equipment, the 2013 Malibu build in the next year at the factory Add. The car will be built in Kansas City, Kansas.
In addition, GM said that it will build a long-overdue new version of the Impala factory. GM released some details about the car, which will go into production for the year 2013. The current version is much louder and does not have the technology and handling of competitors like the Ford Taurus offered. Now in Oshawa, Ontario, is the ninth generation of the Impala and went on sale as of model year 2006 spokesman Chris Lee would not say if the Oshawa plant would build the new Impala also.
GM sold about 70,000 Impala to April, almost 30 percent in the first four months of the previous year. Last year many of the cars for large fleet buyers such as car rental companies went.
Reuss told reporters Wednesday, the new version of the front wheel-drive the current car as.
Stop GM the Cadillac produce two other large cars in the factory, DTS and Buick Lucerne, this year.
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