GM to retrain laid-off workers
| Flint, Mich.
The United Automobile Workers and General Motors Corporation Thursday announced a $7 million retraining program for 9,300 laid-off auto workers, reports United Press International.
The project includes a regional training center that will:
* Assess availability of jobs.
* Conduct retraining.
* Assist workers in finding jobs within GM and in other industries.
The program fulfills the GM pledge made in a concessions agreement last year to set up a jobs-training program.
A year ago, the UAW and Ford announced a similar retraining program that is based at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Mich. A similar retraining program is in effect in California to serve laid-off workers at idle GM assembly plants in Fremont and South Gate.
