GM Will Add 700 Jobs To Crossover Plant in Tenn. - Partly To Build Vehicles For Export - Guess Where To

[Gorehamj]

John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
4-25-2018

 

General Motors recently dropped about 1,500 jobs at its plant that build small cars. However, the shift to crossovers is also adding workers to GM plants. The most recent announcement is that GM will add about 700 workers at its Spring Hill Tennessee plant.

Spring Hill builds full-sized, three-row crossovers for GMC and mid-sized, two-row crossovers for Cadillac. The plant will also be building the Holden Acadia for export to Austrailia in 2018. The assembly plant is accompanied by an engine plant. The work added will be a full shift.  Spring hill currently has about 3,000 employees about 85% of which are hourly. The total investment in the plant is almost $300 million. Ken Knight, GM's Spring Hill Plant Executive Director commented on the added capacity, saying, “This shift addition is not only an indication of the popularity of these GMC and Cadillac crossovers with customers but is a testament to the great work being done by the Spring Hill Assembly team.  Their commitment to building quality vehicles is visible every day. It also demonstrates the strong spirit of teamwork between GM and our UAW partners, as we work together to satisfy our customers.”

 

Mike Herron, Chairman of the UAW's local 1853, added, "Today’s investment is a perfect example of what we can achieve by working together and strengthening our UAW and GM relationships. I congratulate the entire Spring Hill Manufacturing workforce for their hard work, commitment and dedication to going above and beyond to build fantastic vehicles for our customers. This is  very good news for our team members and for Middle Tennessee.”

 

The Spring Hill plant was originally a Saturn plant. In the past, it has build Chevrolet crossovers.

[Daryl LBZ]

I'm confused. I thought Holden was dead?

[newdude]

9 minutes ago, Daryl Z71 said:

I'm confused. I thought Holden was dead?

 

Holden manufacturing down under is dead.  The brand is still alive, and is basically just rebadges now.  https://www.holden.com.au/

[Gorehamj]

Nah. Holden the brand is not dead. GM just isn't building vehicles in Australia anymore. "Australian import tariffs have since tumbled through bilateral free trade deals with car manufacturing countries like the United States, Japan, China, South Korea, Thailand and Malaysia." They took away the tariffs protecting the jobs and the jobs went away. Source

[Daryl LBZ]

Oh I got ya now. I thought when they pulled out of Australia that they also killed Holden.

[Colossus]

As far as I am concerned, Holden is dead.  They don't produce anything.  They only import. 

[truckofwinandawesome]

21 hours ago, Colossus said:

As far as I am concerned, Holden is dead.  They don't produce anything.  They only import. 

basically, Holden is doing now, what Pontiac did towards the end of its life: Captive Imports.

[Colossus]

Yup.  Pontiac and Olds died, before it died.