After getting $824M in state support, GM to chop 900 jobs at Orion Meeting – Michigan Capitol Confidential
GM CEO claimed funding wouldn’t have been potential, apart from company welfare
Simply two years after $820 million-plus in company welfare to construct EVs on the Orion Meeting plant, GM will lay off 911 employees there. (Shutterstock)
Common Motors Corp. will lay off 900 employees from Orion Meeting in January 2024.
The corporate obtained roughly $824 million in company welfare from Michigan lawmakers lower than two years in the past, in January 2022. Taxpayers spent $600 million to create 4,000 jobs, as much as $158 million for renewable power tasks (because the manufacturing unit would construct electrical automobiles), and $66.1 million in website readiness.
“The Michigan Financial Improvement Company additionally approved a State Schooling Tax abatement for use along side the regionally accepted Orion Township abatement in help of the GM enlargement,” the state introduced on the time.
Orion Township threw in property tax abatements.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined GM CEO Mary Barra within the announcement, touting the good-paying jobs the plant would create.
“GM’s $7 billion funding in Michigan — the biggest of their historical past — will create and retain 5,000 good-paying jobs and allow us to construct on our legacy because the place that put the world on wheels,” Whitmer said on the time.
“In terms of investing in Michigan, GM and I’ve the identical philosophy: ‘All people In.’ Michigan’s future is vibrant, and I’ll proceed working with anybody to make transformational investments in our economic system, create good-paying jobs, and empower working households.”
Barra runs the no. 21 firm on the Fortune 500 listing. However in her public assertion, she mentioned the Orion funding wouldn’t have been potential if not for company welfare.
“These essential investments wouldn’t have been potential with out the sturdy help from the governor, Michigan Legislature, Orion Township, the Metropolis of Lansing, Delta Township,” Barra mentioned, earlier than mentioning the United Auto Employees union.
UAW officers spoke of the Common Motors funding as one that will “profit households for many years to come back.”
Two years later, 911 Orion Township manufacturing unit employees will begin the 12 months in want of labor.