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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
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)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.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)yay for Kokomo, btw
JHB
(37,161 posts)印地安那
It's in between 伊利諾伊州 and 美國俄亥俄州
riqster
(13,986 posts)Just like Mitt said...
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)demosincebirth
(12,540 posts)valiberal26
(41 posts)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)"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)With climate change getting worse, we ought to be destroying automobiles rather than building them.
"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)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)"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)of the recent right to serf laws passed there.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)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."
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)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?