GM is investing $552 million in four plants in New York and Ohio, saving 1,300 jobs.
General Motors has announced plans to invest a total of $552 million in three plants in upstate New York and a fourth in Ohio.
“GM remains committed to investing in its U.S. operations. With these latest projects, we have announced investments of $2.2 billion in 2016, allowing us to support the production of future engines and vehicles,” said Cathy Clegg, vice president of manufacturing and labor relations for GM North America.
Cindy Estrada, the head of the UAW’s GM Department, credited the 2015 negotiations with securing the investments, which will help protect the jobs of some 1,300 GM workers in New York and Ohio.
“The UAW’s negotiations with GM to reinvest in the Tonawanda, Rochester, Lockport and Parma plants have paid off not only for our members but also for those communities,” Estrada said.
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“Our strategic bargaining efforts will keep and grow great American auto manufacturing jobs in places that have seen too much manufacturing disappear and will solidify the job security our members deserve.”
The largest investment will be at the GM engine plant in Tonawanda, outside of Buffalo, New York, where the company will spend $296 million on future engine production line that will retain 857 job and create 67 new ones, GM said.
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The additional investment will include a $32 million investment in a components plant in Lockport that will help protect some 320 jobs and an additional investment at a plant in Rochester, New York, that will protect 20 jobs.
GM also plans to invest $218 million at it metal plant in Parma, Ohio, buying new presses, dies and subassemblies at the Parma Metal Center, GM said, adding that the investment will help protect the jobs of 140 employees.
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The new investment will help balance the jobs lost when GM announced it would eliminate a shift at the company’s assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. In addition, GM also has announced plans to eliminate 160 jobs at semiconductor plant it operates in Kokomo, Indiana.