Slaughter praises hiring, work at GM - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Slaughter toured a GM parts plant Wednesday, a plant where workers make fuel injector systems and emissions parts for GM trucks like the Silverado. Their parts also go into GMC Sierra pickup trucks and the Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban, GMC Yukon, Yukon Denali and Cadillac Escalade SUVs. After her 10-minute tour of the production floor, Slaughter praised the plant for hiring hundreds of local workers, not polluting the local environment and making new products that keep GM profitable. Neal Evans, the plant manager, said his facility employs just under 1,100 who pump out parts 24 hours a day. Evans said today's large work force is a result of the plant being awarded the task of making the fuel injectors in 2007. He said 80 percent of his hourly workers have less than 10 years experience, hinting at how new they are to the plant. The 2007 deal for fuel injectors came "and that really helped save the plant and we've built off of that," Evans said. owned the plant and that company went bankrupt and closed most of its U. S. plants. The plant managed to stay open long enough for GM to buy it in 2009 and then GM went bankrupt. Source: www.democratandchronicle.com
