Study predicts surge in auto hiring
28.03.2008 09:03
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- Source: toledoblade.com
If all this bleak economic weather has you down, if the flurry of foreclosures and the pounding job losses have left you pining for a brighter horizon, here's a ray of hope from auto experts up north: Don't think spring, think fall. A recent study by experts at the University of Michigan said the three Detroit-based automakers will need tens of thousands of new employees in coming years, and may start hiring as soon as six months from now. And at least some of those new jobs will be in northwest Ohio. "We're hearing that [General Motors Corp.] will probably have to hire between 10,000 and 15,000 people corporate-wide, based on numbers" that take the current buyout package, said Ray Wood, president of United Auto Workers Local 14. UAW Local 12 President Bruce Baumhower has said he expects Chrysler LLC to begin hiring again over the next few years to replace the more than 600 workers at its Toledo Jeep Assembly complex who have taken buyouts. Automakers - especially GM, Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler - have an older work force that will soon need to be replaced, a study last month by the Center for Automotive Research at UM found. Even though factories continue to make huge strides in efficiency, more than 56,000 people are expected to be hired over the next three years, and 77,000 by 2016. 
Toledo Jeep Assembly.
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