Forecast: Detroit 3 to boost Michigan job levels by 34%

BY BRENT SNAVELY

DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER


The Detroit Three could add as many as 35,000 new jobs by 2015, with virtually all of them landing in Michigan as the Detroit Three continue to consolidate their operations here, Sean McAlinden, senior economist for the Center for Automotive Research, said today.

After slashing more than 230,000 U.S. jobs between 2000 and 2009 as they repeatedly restructured, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are now well positioned to add jobs as the economy recovers.

While the numbers rehired won’t bring the automakers close to the more than 400,000 U.S. workers they employed back in 2000, there will be modest growth, most of it in Michigan.


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