UPDATE: GM to invest $200 million in Lordstown for new Cruze

[Marthe48]

Source: www.vindy.com (online Youngstown Vindicator)


"General Motors will invest $220 million for tooling and equipment to build the next-generation Chevrolet Cruze, retaining 5,000 jobs between the company’s Lordstown and Parma facilities, according to a statement released this afternoon.

GM has already begun to retool the factory; $200 million of the investment will be used there."

Read more: http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/aug/23/reports-gm-invest-220-million-new-cruze/

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Pretty good news! Thank you Senator Brown, Governor Strickland and President Obama. This was in the works way before Kasuck became governor.

[2on2u]

1. In a roundabout sort of way this is some of the stimulus coming back into the

loop.

[farmbo]

2. This is why Ohio's jobless rate is below the Natl. Average

Yeah Ohio!

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Great to hear...

especially for Parma. I spent my teens in the next town over (Brook Park)

[SoapBox]

5. Duh-oh!

...bad news for the Baggers!

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. This is one of the reasons Obama is running away with Ohio

Despite the very deep concern of some of our most imbecilic trolls.

Few remember today, but Lordstown was the site of one of the major blue collar work actions of the 1970's - the Lordstown strike was about production speeds and conditions - shit unions used to be able to strike about. But this was wildcat: it was the young workers coming back on the line, many after returning from Vietnam, and being deeply dissatisfied with the form and nature of the work. It was mirrored in its intensity only by some of the major strike actions in Europe - the Pirelli Rubber strikes of the late 1960's, or the revolt of the workers at the giant Mirafiore Fiat plant. Now in northeast Ohio, any work on the line is good work.

if you drive east or west on I-80 through that stretch, the mammoth Lordstown plant is indeed a sight to behold.

[sellitman]

7. This is Obama's fault!!!!

Dam government funded rescue !!!