GM India to Hire 1,000 Staff in 2010

Source: WSJ

BANGALORE -- The Indian unit of General Motors Co. said Tuesday it will hire up to 1,000 people in India by the end of 2010 as it increases output to meet rising local demand for its cars and to strengthen its automotive engineering design capabilities.

The company will hire 150 to 200 engineers at its powertrain center in the technology hub of Bangalore, P. Balendran, vice president at General Motors India Pvt. Ltd., told a news conference to launch an automatic transmission version of the Chevrolet Cruze sedan.

He added that GM India will recruit about 800 employees at its two factories in India, where it is looking to ramp up capacity to meet booming customer demand.


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So much for exports from Obama Motors.

Oh, wait...

created to produce products to be sold in the country in which the jobs are created. I have no problem with that. Let Americans produce products for the American market. Let the Indians produce products for their market. Fair enough.

Capital has no national allegiance, labor does.

The odds are high that some Michigan-based engineers will be saying
good-bye to their jobs soon.

Tesha

if so, i really don't have a problem with it.

And you can bet those transmissions will go in US cars. They will not have 2 design centers.

due to the tariffs that india imposes.
at least this way- more profit dollars come back to the u.s.

First off if any of those rupees make it back to the US, they will be slightly taxed. Which means we don't get that much back.

However, I assume you think GM's top brass getting brand new vacation homes in Barbados, somehow makes the average laid off auto worker in the US feel better?


Societies with long term vision, don't tend to like it when they are forced to buy a rope to hung themselves with. In the US we are so shortsighted, that we focus on the great deal we just got on rope. LOL

:crazy:

How do the profit dollars come back to the U.S.?

GM, the corporation, will profit. But isn't GM India an offshore subsidiary, which means it is tax exempt? So if no Americans are earning wages from producing those GM cars, and the U.S. Treasury is deriving no tax revenue from their production by and sale to Indians, who beside GM executives and stockholders will benefit?

remember that whole bankruptcy thing last summer?

Same cars I believe.

http://crescent-news.com/news/simple_article/4772368

:rofl:

You can't attract high-quality candidates like Whitacre without paying them above 7M the least. :rofl:

"You're doing one heck of a job, Whitey!" :rofl:

Via corporate jet of course.

I should undercut him, I can fuck things as badly for a mere $1.5K an hour. Boom 50% savings right there... GM, call me.

the company. So basically, $9 million in taxpayer funds to one of the President's buddies.

I'm sure the bar is fully stocked on the corporate jet as well.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosis-in-flight-food-and-drink-costs-101000-2010-1

This stuff makes *me* need a drink...and I don't drink.

Don't worry, I can drink for both of us.

:rofl:

Take the damn jobs back!

IBM would help you move to India to work your old job n rupees. This is how it starts. 750,000 IT jobs were lost in the last decade in this country. IBM had almost 200,000 US workers in 2000 and my job along with another 100,000 US jobs were transfered to India and or Brazil. When they design a program or answer a help line it isn't in India it is for here.

Whitacre outsourced AT&T jobs to India, including engineering jobs. So YOU go up to Detroit and tell experienced fired US engineers that know how to build a transmission that their government and president own GM but they need inexperienced Indian engineers that don't even own an automobile to design transmissions.

Its easy to mention the assembly jobs and ignore the fact that Walmart cannot open a store in India due to their protectionism. But as one poster above put, GM is adding back workers at Lordstown for the new Chevy and you just read where the start of the design process is moving to India.

I think that they did not offer to cover "moving expenses" for those who took the offer though. Ain't globalization grand: we now can experience the thrill of having to move half a world away, to enjoy 3rd world living standards with a matching salary, and having to pay for the move.

Funny though, executive positions are seldom "outsourced"

:eyes:

are going to the DESIGN CENTER and they are not designing Indian transmissions.

From the GM India career page:

"General Motors Technical Centre – India is a 100% subsidiary of the automobile legend, General Motors Corporation USA. This centre at ITPL Bangalore will house the R&D and Engineering Centre that will focus on engineering and research and development work in support of GM’s global portfolio."

So before you repeat yourself again, it is global not Indian.

These jobs weren't created by layoffs in America.

And what about the other 800 jobs?

This is ridiculous.

We're as responsible for this "We are the world" mentality as the Repukes are.

I have no sophistication when it comes to business and economics. But I am old enough to remember when America was American and things were simpler and better. We made American cars in America by American workers, we sold them overseas, unemployment was very low and the economy was just fine. Simple, but good in every way.

Now I learn that the same General Motors, an American corporation, in India, is hiring Indians to make General Motors cars and there is something upside-down and sideways about that. It's complicated. And although I'm not capable of understanding the complication I am acutely aware that it corresponds with a time when the American Experiment seems to be failing in every important way.

This corporation, General Motors, owes its phenomenally successful existence to America, so what the hell is it doing over in India? How does America benefit from its presence there? And are there any rules in place to ensure that appropriate tariffs will be imposed on any parts made in India by Indian workers and shipped to America?

Automakers expand into different markets. It doesn't make good business sense to have all their manufacturing done in their home countries if they're selling all over the world.

You forgot that part. :hi: