FLINT, Michigan — General Motors is spending $ 328 million to upgrade a factory in Flint, Michigan, where it will build the next generation of full-size pickups.
The investment will pay for equipment to build the new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks, which are due in showrooms in early 2013.
The investment is 2 billion GM is spending to create or maintain 4,000 jobs in eight States over the next 18 months.
At the Assembly facility in Flint, will add about 150 jobs, said Dana Rouse, President of United Auto Workers Local Union at the bargaining.
The plant will hire 750 workers for another shift. The move is necessary to meet the increased demand for heavy versions of pickup. Sales of those trucks have continued to flourish even though total withdrawal demand has waned.
The Flint plant currently employs 115,000 2,047 people and trucks made last year.
GM truck sales rose about U.S. 13 percent in June from a year earlier, about the same as the increase in global market of the United States.
GM wouldn't say if plans to make an investment similar in its other U.S. pickup truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cathy Clegg, vice President for labor relations, said Flint that the company has more investments to announce.
GM makes even pickup in Silao, Mexico.
Separately, GM started negotiations with the UAW on a new contract on 27 July. Both sides said the announcement Flint who want to work together to fairly pay employees still keep costs under control of the company.
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