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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:44 PM Feb 2013

Chrysler To Invest $400 Million In Indiana Plants, Create Over 1000 Jobs

Chrysler To Invest $400 Million In Indiana Plants, Create Over 1000 Jobs

Chrysler announced Thursday that it would invest nearly $400 million in transmission plants in the Kokomo, Indiana, area, creating approximately 1,250 new jobs, the Associated Press reported.

CEO Sergio Marchionne confirmed that Chrysler will spend $162 million and add 850 new jobs at a former Getrag Transmission plant in nearby Tipton. The company will spend another $212 million for new equipment and tooling at three other factoring, creating 400 new jobs.

The new, more fuel-efficient transmission will be used in Dodge Dart compact cars and the Jeep Cherokee.

Chrysler became a campaign issue toward the end of the presidential election when Mitt Romney released an Ohio TV ad falsely implying that Chrysler was moving Jeep production to China because of the auto rescue.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/chrysler-to-invest-400-million-in-indiana-plants


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Chrysler To Invest $400 Million In Indiana Plants, Create Over 1000 Jobs (Original Post) ProSense Feb 2013 OP
Indiana is a province of China, right? Jeff In Milwaukee Feb 2013 #1
Indiana in the East Indies, is it not? Kolesar Feb 2013 #3
Yeah, I think I know that province... JHB Feb 2013 #12
Damn Obama for destroying our auto industry! riqster Feb 2013 #2
Chrysler transmission is a reliable customer of my employer .. eom Kolesar Feb 2013 #4
Union jobs to boot! demosincebirth Feb 2013 #5
Not sure if I should applaud this or not. valiberal26 Feb 2013 #6
Actually, ProSense Feb 2013 #7
One can hope. valiberal26 Feb 2013 #8
Or ProSense Feb 2013 #9
Poor alternative. valiberal26 Feb 2013 #11
LOL! ProSense Feb 2013 #13
Jobs and investment are great, I just hope they aren't coming into to take advantage TheKentuckian Feb 2013 #10
of course they are. HiPointDem Mar 2013 #17
Hence, the great anti-union power of 'right to work'. Unions in other states wither. pampango Mar 2013 #18
K & R Scurrilous Mar 2013 #14
Ever remember reading headlines like this during 2001-2009? HughBeaumont Mar 2013 #15
This is great news NNN0LHI Mar 2013 #16
They did both deaniac21 Mar 2013 #19

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
1. Indiana is a province of China, right?
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:48 PM
Feb 2013

Right?

Fuck it. I've GOT to stop watching Fox News.

Edit: Since this is Indiana, it's hard to say if these will be union jobs. But it's still good news.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
12. Yeah, I think I know that province...
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:29 PM
Feb 2013

印地安那

It's in between 伊利諾伊州 and 美國俄亥俄州

 

valiberal26

(41 posts)
6. Not sure if I should applaud this or not.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:38 PM
Feb 2013

While I can appreciate a thousand new jobs being created, I'm not so certain we should be building more automobiles. Why not a bicycle factory, or perhaps building vehicles for public transportation instead?

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
7. Actually,
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:45 PM
Feb 2013

"While I can appreciate a thousand new jobs being created, I'm not so certain we should be building more automobiles. Why not a bicycle factory..."

...I think that's going to be the next announcement.

 

valiberal26

(41 posts)
8. One can hope.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:54 PM
Feb 2013

With climate change getting worse, we ought to be destroying automobiles rather than building them.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
9. Or
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:18 PM
Feb 2013

"With climate change getting worse, we ought to be destroying automobiles rather than building them"

...we could build electric cars.

GM Plans To Boost Chevy Volt Production 20 Percent In 2013
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/28/1654771/gm-plans-to-boost-chevy-volt-production-20-percent-in-2013/

 

valiberal26

(41 posts)
11. Poor alternative.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:24 PM
Feb 2013

The manufacture of electric cars produces waste that must be disposed of; which can be a difficult proposition since some of that waste is hazardous.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
13. LOL!
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:41 PM
Feb 2013

"The manufacture of electric cars produces waste that must be disposed of; which can be a difficult proposition since some of that waste is hazardous."

Yeah, I guess we'll have to wait for the bicycle announcement.

TheKentuckian

(25,026 posts)
10. Jobs and investment are great, I just hope they aren't coming into to take advantage
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:24 PM
Feb 2013

of the recent right to serf laws passed there.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
18. Hence, the great anti-union power of 'right to work'. Unions in other states wither.
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 07:00 PM
Mar 2013

Something tells me that Germany, Canada and other progressive industrial countries with strong unions and high wages don't have 'right to work' laws.

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
15. Ever remember reading headlines like this during 2001-2009?
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 07:37 AM
Mar 2013

Oh, that's right. What made the headlines instead were layoffs in the multiple thousands . . . . practically every other WEEK.

And then 2008 came.

Can America finally, FINALLY learn it's lesson that Reaganomics does not work?

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