Chrysler to Spend $238 Million, Add 1,250 Jobs in Michigan

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Chrysler to spend $238 million, add 1,250 jobs in Michigan

Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:00pm EST

(Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC, the U.S. automaker majority owned by Fiat SpA, said on Thursday it will invest $238 million to boost engine and truck production in Michigan and add up to 1,250 jobs to meet new demand.

The company is spending $198 million to make its Pentastar V6 engine at the Mack I Engine Plant, which currently builds a larger engine for the Ram 1500 truck. Production will begin in early 2014 and Chrysler may add up to 250 jobs there, subject to market conditions.

The automaker is spending $40 million to install a flexible production line at its Trenton North plant, which can build both the V-6 engine and the Tigershark four-cylinder engine.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE8AE1CC20121115

[Populist_Prole]

1. Excellent! Just watch the amazing GOP meme turnabout now

2 weeks ago: Oh now, they're sending your jobs overseas! Vote for me instead!

Today: The same crowd is probably growling and grousing about how this will increase the viability of a group they absolutely love to hate: unionized blue collar manufacturing workers.

The cons official meme will be something along the lines now about how unions are holding a business hostage and making them less competitive blah blah blah.

[Bluzmann57]

2. 1250 jobs

Unionized jobs, probably good pay and benefits. In the USA. Doesn't sound like anyone's moving to China just yet. And it soumds like maybe the auto bailout worked.
If this sounds like rubbing salt in the wounds, good. It is.

[madrchsod]

6. it is a two tier wage scale starting at 14 for general labor

here`s what the new ceo thinks of two tier....

http://www.freep.com/article/20111028/BUSINESS0103/111028016/Chrysler-CEO-says-two-tier-union-pay-scale-will-end

contract up in 2015.

[Dubster]

3. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[madrchsod]

4. WHAT! i thought they were moving to china...

or maybe those v-6 and 4 cyl are going into those jeeps chrysler is going to make in china!

[pepperbear]

5. hmm.....a collective 300+ MILLION on a campaign....

one company's 238 million investment on job creation.

math.

[joeglow3]

7. Good for Michigan, but I won't buy one

After years of GM cars and being happy, we bought a Town & Country and a Sebring. These cars were manufactured 3 years apart and we have had MANY of the exact same failures at identical mileages (thermastat, transmission, etc.). I would never buy one of these pieces of shit again. Back to GM with our next cars.

[MightyMopar]

17. Today's Chrysler products are quite different than the one even 3 years ago.

This new Pentastar V6 is a truly great engine.

[n2doc]

8. I didn't know 'Michigan" was a Chinese Province!

[Kber]

9. LOL

[pipewrench]

10. only on planet Romney, a gas giant, population 1....

[JNelson6563]

12. Awesome News!

More reason to celebrate here in Michigan!

Julie

[AzDar]

13. Awesome!

[Grins]

14. Damn you Obama, and your bailout!!!! The Kenyan Muslim socialist has struck again!

$238 million to boost production and 1,250 new jobs - none of them minimum wage? That bastard!!! This is all his fault.

Can't wait to send this one to my Reich-wing friends.

[Coyotl]

15. When you are wrong, you are very wrong Mitt!

[2on2u]

16. Crap, more American jobs being sent to S. Canada. Oh Bother..... n/t

[SunDrop23]

18. Thank you President Obama for your faith in the American worker. (nfm)

[Third Doctor]

19. So much for that big

lie that cost Mitt, Ohio. Was it worth it ,Mitt?

[FarCenter]

20. About 190,000 of investment / job

So adding 1 million jobs would require $190 billion. 10 million jobs would require $1.9 trillion.

[MightyMopar]

21. These new Ram trucks with Pentastar V6's get 25mpg hwy astonishing for fullsize truck with 290 hp

5 more hwy mpgs than a comparable Toyota V6 full size pickup and even better than Toyota's compact truck with a automatic. Sergio Marchionne is the best CEO in America.