Significant Progress Continues in Placing Impacted U.S. Hourly Employees
2019-02-06
DETROIT – More than 1,500 hourly employees impacted by the company’s November 26th announcements have volunteered to transfer to other U.S. locations. To date, nearly 950 employees have accepted transfer opportunities at truck, SUV and crossover related operations.
GM U.S. HOURLY EMPLOYEES AT IMPACTED PLANTS
12/14/18
1/4/19
2/1/19
TOTAL U.S. HOURLY ACTIVE EMPLOYEES IMPACTED
2,800
EMPLOYEES ELIGIBLE TO RETIRE
1,200
TOTAL U.S. GM JOB OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
2,700
PLACEMENT FROM IMPACTED PLANTS (CUMULATIVE NUMBER)
DETROIT/HAMTRAMCK
418
567
LORDSTOWN
285
372
Total Placements
703
943
U.S. hourly employees that have already been placed into new assignments include 538 employees from Detroit/Hamtramck and 93 employees from Lordstown transferring to Flint Assembly to support the upcoming heavy-duty pickup launch and 132 Lordstown employees being placed at GM’s Spring Hill, Tennessee complex.
Impacted employees from Baltimore and Warren Transmission will have transfer opportunities closer to their end of production dates.
GM’s process for transferring impacted employees to other job openings will continue throughout 2019. As previously communicated, GM will have additional job opportunities at manufacturing operations in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana.