General Motors to rehire nearly 900 workers in Michigan

General Motors is rehiring hundreds of laid-off employees.

Probably hoping for some positive PR, the automaker said it plans to bring back close to 900 of the 1,100 workers from three Michigan manufacturing facilities who lost their jobs earlier this month.

As many as 500 of those jobs won’t be brought back until 2018 to the company’s Lansing Delta plant. Another 180 jobs will come to a plant in Flint, Michigan. Those positions are expected to be filled by retained workers from the Lansing plant.

“The job commitments announced today demonstrate the confidence we have in our products, our people and an overall positive outlook for the auto industry and the U.S. economy,” GM chairman and chief executive Mary Barra said in a statement.

GM announced earlier this year that it intends to create 7,000 jobs and invest $1 billion in the United States in 2017.

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President Donald Trump made American job retention a key platform in the run up to the 2016 election. The announcement coincided with a visit from Trump on Wednesday.

The Detroit News reported:

Barra is among a group of CEOs and senior executives from many automakers who will meet with Trump at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti Township. Trump likely will press automaker CEOs for more U.S. and Michigan jobs. He tweeted earlier Wednesday that he was heading to Detroit, Michigan, “for a big meeting on bringing back car production to State and U.S. Already happening!”

Trump has criticized automakers for building cars in Mexico and shipping them back across the U.S. border for sale. But none of the jobs GM is adding or retaining are coming back from Mexico; they are instead driven by a boost in truck and SUV sales and demand for more efficient transmissions.

Barra also made news this week when she announced that she would not stand for re-election to the board of directors for General Dynamics Corp. Barra had been a member of the board since 2011.

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