GM Green Jobs Announcement
White Marsh, Maryland
January 26, 2010
(As Prepared)
I’d like to thank Bill Tiger, Tom Stephens, and everyone with General Motors, particularly here at the White Marsh facility. We’re joined today by UAW Region Director Gary Casteel, Darren Petty, President of our State UAW, and Fred Swanner, President of UAW Local 239 ,…
Can we have a round of applause for all the UAW workers who will be building the next generation of green electric motors right here in theState of Maryland?
Senator Mikulski, Senator Cardin, Congressman Ruppersberger, County Executive Jim Smith – thank you for your leadership and partnership. Today’s announcement is a great example of business, labor and federal, state, and local government working together.
We are focused on the goals of creating jobs and protecting jobs, and strengthening and growing the ranks of an increasingly diverse, upwardly mobile middle class.
Creating Jobs with GM
We are very proud here in the State of Maryland to be home to this White Marsh plant where our fellow Marylanders at GM will be building the hybrid engines of the future. And we’re proud to be investing $4.5 million to help make this happen.
GM is on its way back, advancing the renewable, cleaner, greener, technologies of tomorrow that also happen to be the technologies consumers want more and more. Lt. Governor Brown and I both make use of hybrid Chevy Tahoes, in fact.
In many ways, GM’s path from recovery to prosperity is a metaphor for our entire country.
Green technology is good for our environment, good for business, and good for job creation in our State.
Conclusion
In Maryland, innovation is something we do well. And with our #1 best public school system and our world class workforce and institutions of science, discovery, and higher learning, we’re in position to grow Maryland’s Innovation Economy so that we can create even more jobs, save more jobs, and expand opportunity to every greater numbers of our people.
Thanks again to the hardworking people of General Motors.
