Word: plantes
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...that anyone Saturn hired who was a union member and a current or former GM employee would be guaranteed lifetime job security. U.A.W. President Owen Beiber praised the pact. Said he: "For the first time in history, our union will have a great deal of input upon how the plant is operated...
...company officials were not as interested in deals and flattery as they were in a specific list of requirements that the site must meet. Among other things, the plant had to be near a railroad, water transportation and at least two interstate highways. Every day the factory would need 4 million gal. of fresh water, half a million pounds of steam and 80 megawatts of power...
...system. Partly in response to GM's concerns, the state's legislature met in special session two weeks ago to pass a $306 million education-aid bill. Michigan's main attraction was a large pool of skilled workers already experienced in automaking. GM was hesitant, however, to put a plant with revolutionary work rules so close to the company's conventional factories. The Saturn workers and employees at older plants near by might resent being treated differently...
...Maclin Davis, a Nashville lawyer, had accumulated options to buy 4,000 acres around Haynes Haven farm. A few residents had mixed emotions. "I will hate to see the farmlands torn up," said Ronald Woody, assistant principal of Spring Hill High School, but he was happy that the GM plant would force the county to build a new high school. The current one was completed in 1937 by the New Deal's Works Progress Administration...
...losers in the Saturn sweepstakes. Said New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean: "We're obviously disappointed. We knew we were a long shot, but we also knew we were in the competition." But Douglas Ross, Michigan's secretary of commerce, was more upbeat. "We win, no matter where the Saturn plant goes," he said. "If Saturn learns how to build cars competitive with the Japanese, that means the American auto industry centered in Michigan will survive and flourish...