GM, GE pick Michigan for manufacturing facilities (new small car)

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-06-25-gm-small-car-plant-michigan_N.htm


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General Electric says they'll hire 1,100 scientists, engineers and technologists in a new manufacturing technology and software development site in Van Buren Township, about 25 miles from Detroit. And General Motors said they picked a plant in Orion Township, about 40 miles north of Detroit, to make a subcompact and compact car.

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And Michigan makes sense because there are a lot of skilled precision workers with engineering and technical backgrounds looking for work, he says.

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"The community support for this effort was just overwhelming," Peters says. "I had high hopes when we started the initiative, but the way the entire community united exceeded my expectations."
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And not a bunch of H1-B visa holiding, no tax paying, send all their earning back to Inda, low-paid engineers.