SACRAMENTO, CA-During a press conference at an aerospace assembly plant, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a state ballot initiative designed to create 100,000 new jobs and attract business to the state. MORE
DETROIT-Ford will invest $450 million to build its next-generation hybrid and a rechargeable plug-in hybrid at a Michigan assembly plant starting in 2012. The move would create 1,000 new jobs in Michigan. MORE
DETROIT-GM may reopen some shuttered factories because it can’t produce certain vehicles fast enough. Plants assembling the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX crossover vehicles, and the Buick LaCrosse sedan are at capacity and can’t satisfy demand. MORE
ATLANTA-The Georgia Department of Labor’s Columbus Career Center will help Kia supplier Mobis to fill approximately 250 second-shift production jobs at its assembly plant in West Point, GA. MORE
GRAND ISLAND, NE-Two hundred jobs may be headed here as part of a $5 million tax credit for TPI Composites to build new factory to produce wind turbine blades. MORE
PEORIA, IL-The first green bulldozer assembled by Caterpillar rolled off the assembly line last month. The D7E is a midsize dozer that burns six gallons of diesel gas per hour instead of the normal 8.5 gallons. MORE
MENLO PARK, CA-Activist group the Raging Grannies staged a protest at Tesla Motors’ showroom here. The group objects to Tesla’s decision to build its assembly plant on a brownfield site in Downey, CA, rather than take over the former NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA. MORE
MARYVILLE, MO-Employees at the Kawasaki Motors manufacturing plant here were sent home last week because a roof was buckling from the weight of snow. MORE
ST. LOUIS-A disgruntled worker embroiled in a pension dispute with his company showed up at the plant and opened fire Thursday, killing three people and wounding five before killing himself. MORE
HUNTSVILLE, AL-Some 50 workers at Navistar’s assembly plant here will assist area nonprofit agencies for the next three months in lieu of being laid off. MORE
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