Another One: Stimulus-Backed Battery Company Workers With No Work To Do

LadyEagle · Oct 24, 2012

Another One: Stimulus-Backed Battery Company Workers With No Work To Do — Playing Cards, Watching Movies, Reading Magazines
LG Chem joins the growing list of 'green' failures
By Jarrett Skorup | Oct. 19, 2012 | Twitter Follow Jarrett Skorup on Twitter

LG Chem, a Korean-owned company with a battery manufacturing plant in Holland, Mich., received a $151 million grant through the federal stimulus program and another $100 million in promised credits from Michigan taxpayers.

Today, the company faces “rolling furloughs” and workers reportedly are sitting around playing cards and reading magazines because “there’s nothing to do.”

Just two years ago, President Obama hailed the company as helping to transform the state to “a green economy” and bring “not just any jobs,” but “jobs in the industries of the future.” But recently, some workers went on record telling WOOD TV in Grand Rapids that “as much as they want to work, there’s nothing to do.”
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Another One: Stimulus-Backed Battery Company Workers With No Work To Do

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