General Motors announced today that it will hire 450 temporary workers to build its SUVs that include the Chevrolet TrailBlazer, GMC Envoy and Saab 9-7X. The Moraine, Ohio plant is scheduled to close for the 2010 model year, and the temps will take the place of some of the 770 full-time employees who accepted GM’s early retirement offers.
The good news is that some of those temporary workers are ones who were laid off by the auto giant earlier this year, as per Automotive News reports. They include workers from the DMAX engine plant also in Moraine, which builds diesel truck engines under GM’s collaboration with Isuzu.
The plant will cease production for two weeks, with a third week taken to train new and transferred employees. Full-blown production will resume on July 21.
At the beginning of June, GM announced it will close four SUV and truck production plants, with the Moraine facility among them.
