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Manpower flint7/28/2023 UAW Local 2209 Shop Chairman Rich Letourneau said that would likely be insufficient in keeping the facility operating smoothly. The automaker held a job fair for the Fort Wayne Assembly plant last month and only managed to get 60 people. Things have gone better in Indiana, though not by much. “ are telling us they’re making an average of $16.05 an hour on unemployment, so why would they work for anything less than that? I’ve been doing this for 29 years, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Gail Smith, the staffing manager at Snelling Staffing in Roseville, Michigan, explained. Though the biggest issue for most businesses is finding seriously interested applicants. GM has only been able to find 22 to 25 new people a week for Flint, according to Welter, and many end up needing to be replaced after a short stint on the line. Staffing agencies have suggested that it’s become increasingly difficult to find people willing to work, despite pandemic restrictions ending and job openings becoming more common. “You have to start treating people right, improving your compensation and doing something different to attract employees because you’re competing with every major employer in the area,” he said. But the UAW has stated that most new hires won’t last that long. Those that last for two years can also petition the company to become a full-time employee. The Detroit Free Press estimated that the average GM hire makes about $16.60 an hour with benefits kicking in within the first six months. Welter thinks finances might also be a contributing factor and recommended that the automaker start paying more. GM seems to think it’s having difficulties reaching the right people and has been trying to make people aware that it’s hiring by ensuring recruiters appear at employment fairs and remaining active online. But it doesn’t see that as the core problem. While General Motors is also seeking several hundred temporary employees for its Fort Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana, where recreational THC use remains illegal, it confessed that it’s considering changing its drug-testing rules. Others have actively decriminalized its possession for medical purposes or lightened punishment for its possession. But the larger issue is that smoking weed is becoming normalized to the same degree as alcohol consumption in increasingly more states, with 16 having legalized it totally. He’s worried that younger applicants probably won’t bother to apply at places where they’ll be drug tested, adding that GM is needlessly handicapping itself by using hair-sample tests that would come back as positive for pot use even if someone had consumed marijuana several weeks prior. But, if you don’t have enough candidates, testing for marijuana might turn people off from applying,” Eric Welter, the UAW Local 598 Shop Chairman, recently explained to the Detroit Free Press. “When you have a line of people waiting for a job, then it’s OK to test. It believes that General Motors should stop drug testing, especially now that Michigan has legalized recreational marijuana use. Unfortunately, it’s been having trouble finding enough bodies, though the UAW has a solution. Despite GM reducing its Flint workforce from roughly 80,000 in the mid-1970s to fewer than 10,000 in 2010, the truck plant is still operational and reportedly looking for 450 temp workers to help fill in scheduling gaps for the 5,100 union-represented staffers it currently employs. Saying that the region has fallen upon hard times would be a grotesque understatement.īut that doesn’t mean there still aren’t still automotive jobs to be had. Other representations include a myriad of crumbling factories that were closed decades ago and the area’s preponderance of vintage, high-mileage Buicks retained out of utility after the employment situation turned sour. Flint Truck Assembly is the only standing reminder of General Motors’ formerly impressive commitment to Genesee County, Michigan.
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