I wasn't aware that there was a Solyndra plant in Janesville.
However, it does appear that Obama was the kiss of death when he came to visit the Janesville plant.
Trying to put a smile on your face, wislady. ;-)

if you worked for GM you would know what the actual chances of either of the plants re opening are. capacity is at 12.5 mill vehicles and they need a plant to help with more needed hot models. that on top of at least 4 new products coming out within the next couple years. according to our contract, spring hill will be reopening to help with capacity. were will the 4 new models coming out go? they only have one plant left. when janesville does open up, gonna love using the line "looks like hell froze over" to the naysayers.

GM has about the same chance of reopening in Janesville as a Solyndra plant.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100225/BU...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100222/ap_o...

Here is an article about a GM worker who commutes 1,000 miles to work posted on the Yahoo frontpage.

jterry,out of all the post ive read on here,youve got to be the biggest idiot that has posted,you hate us all,you hate the town,what is wrong with you?where do you live?by the way youre talking it must be the bowels of hell.(lol)youre in need of help you should get it,an by the way you cant be to smart either,go back an read some of your post,looks like you cant spell either.lol

Jterry: Again, if you hate this town so much why do you read the gazette or even care what goes on here?? I know when I don't like things I don't go out of my way to read about them or even comment on them. I have better things to do with my time. Like doing things I enjoy, not hate.

Hang in there bobb1951 - hiring will start a few months after the 'official' announcement to re-open the Janeville plant.

I just left a bar in janesville,had a good lunch and all i could her from a drunk FORMER GM worker was he heard GM will open and he will be a high senority worker because he did not take the money,This is the same GM worker I have seen crying about not getting his 28 Pluse an hour job that he could not find in the real world. I told him to wake up the gravy train was over and to get on with his life.O and he stated the UAW was going to get all the jobs back I started to LOL.

in response to frusions question. I just hate Janesville and all of the people who live in Janesville, In my opinion there is not one good thing about your town or all of the sef rightious people who live in it, I mean look how they just stole all the grat farm land out on the east side and you people are not done yet

I keep wondering why the site staff feels that in their infinate wisdom that they have to remove my comments. I stay within thier little guidelines, I have not said anything libelous against anyone or anything, all I have said is what I feel about the issues. But I guess the little girls who are on the site staff think that I am the boogy monster and I will give people nightmares, please enlighten me all of you censors on the site staff

RE: truelove...Many retirees still get a check evey week, ever think of that? what is wrong with this community of mine, (for a good fifty years) that everybody seems to be so hatefull tword hardwoking people. I worked there for ten years, but also worked many jobs in our fair city. Nobody ever hated me for working elsewhere. why dont we all become a community again, it is too late for all this useless hate...........

Hay lets all go and get drunk and go work on the line and have the union save our jobs.

That would be wonderful if GM did open the doors up again. Maybe then we would stop hearing without GM this town is nothing! Seems to me that this town is doing better than expected after GM closed it's doors.

We're back in the saddle again! Yahooooooooooooo ooooooo!!

jterry1955 are you ok? I think you are going to blow a vessel. Why do you hate GM workers so much? They are no different than anyone else. You're a farmer right? Do you also hate farmers that worked at GM?

They closed the Janesville plant?

well golly gee, I think I will make nice with the Janesburg gazette, and say all kind of nice and cheery things, it seems that the Gazette does not believe in freedom of expression unless they them selves are doing it. so I am happy, happy, joy, joy, because those poor overpaid, and under worked GM employees may have a job again, Just remember to say anything on here you have to be HAPPY, HAPPY, JOY, JOY

The only way I know that is that I've know many GM workers over the past 15 years or so and they've all said the same thing to me.

It will take a while for our community to get back to normal after GM returns.

YIKES jterry!! Sounds like you have some issues and could really use a psychological evaluation. Glad you are not from Janesville, I would not want you to be living anywhere near me or my children. You sound like one of those people that will have a break down and start shooting up the place or make your own home-made bomb. If Gm and Janesville make you so upset, you really shouldn't read the articles. You should find a better way to deal with your anger, instead hoping an entire city burns to the ground.

MadeinUSA - Gee, I take offense to that comment as I don't "live in bars". Idiot. I was stating a fact regarding the referrals, and secondly, the GM bashers wouldn't work there anyway. Think before you speak/type.

If Toyota had been exposed for what it is three years ago, we might still have a plant here. Alas, that is just another could have been. Also, I'm not sure the liberal American product bashers (aka Mike Sheridan's Madison friends) would ever buy GM.

You did not have to give/receive a referral from a family member or even someone you knew. Like kind of a way to keep the application process from getting out of hand-like 50,000 applications for 200 jobs?
But the suggestion "the bashers would be the first ones in line to fill out an application" is not necessarily wrong-who knows how applications could be made or handled in the event of a reopening? Obviously not in the "each one gets one" way as in the past, especially in these new/different cicumstances.

skeeterxs170 - RE: Feb 16, 2010 at 7:07 p.m.
"Where are the Gm bashers? I know these articles are like beating a dead horse in Janesville, but if (big if) the plant were to reopen, the bashers would be the first ones in line to fill out an application...."
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As I've stated before (and GMer's have agreed with me), people outside of the GM personnel ranks are not given an opportunity to apply at GM. You have to have an aunt, uncle, brother, sister, mother, father, son, daughter, etc., etc., to be able to get an application from there. Very closed employment even though GM took $17,000,000 from the state a few years back for "training and updating".

All country's hate us,but yet we give them our money!

All Americans should be for the home team, sadly some are not.

Burn to the ground HMMMM With you in it??? Take care of two at once, FOOL!

SarahB1, yes, GM pays property taxes here. Parcel:
http://www.ci.janesville.wi.us/Scripts2/...
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Valued at $12 million and change, and based on the 2009 mill rate of 0.02605380, that's about $300,000 in annual property taxes. Note the quit claim deed in July to the "New GM". They still own it, and they are still paying property taxes on it.

Does this mean GM is not coming back to Janesville?

Federal Job Stimulus money will cover the re-tooling costs - parts and labor - and Mike Sherridan can come back and lead the UAW when he's tossed out of piblic office.

Did any of you ever have a boyfriend or girlfriend that broke up with you even though you "loved" them - and then kept dangling the thought of "getting back together". How'd that work out for you? Most of the time it never happened - or if it did it was just for the opportunity to 'get busy' (Avoiding the obvious words to keep it "family friendly") with you one more time - only to dump you again later? Yo-yo relationships. Exactly what GM is doing now. Time to cut our losses.

woodsman - do you have some obsession with the word "fool"? Really, it's getting old. I wouldn't call some of the comments on here negative, I'd call it moving on and not counting on false hope.

Why don't you negative sub humans quit acting & talking like "FOOL'S" !!! Ask yourselves this question,was Janesburg better off with,or without G.M.(the whole town/county/state are losing millions without this plant)so just be a fool,fool!!

BillyDurant >do any of us really own our names LOL

Have any of you been to Detroit and seen the huge plants ( Ford GM chyrsler ) sitting empty with trees growing in the parking lots . If they are'nt going to open a huge plant in Detriot they sure as heck wont mess with janesville .

Let it go already; union leaders have moved on; why don't the rest of you.

Hate to state the obvious but come on

No stamping plant???How can it be cheaper??? Gee the thought than Tn has capabilities, Jvl doesn't!!!! Put the price of placing a stamping plant in. Several MILLIONS! If I owned Gm (thank god I don't) I'd put $$$$ else where!

What I read on another link was that they want a "labor intensive" re-tooling. Meaning no real re-tooling costs other than more labor. This plant, while a long shot, is the cheapest for GM to run. It's totally owned and all they have to pay is labor and the power/water and other assorted bills. That's one of the reasons GM liked this plant, it was the cheapest to run with the biggest profit margin.

Ugh! Get over it Jville... No more GM!

Elmo: Why do you say I'm a basher? Nothing I said was bashing GM. Agreeing with Brainstorm is just coming to terms with reality. There is a very slim chance that GM will bring anything back to Janesville, it is still a struggling company. I hired-in in May of 2000, worked my a$$ off the entire time. My mom put in 30, my brother and brother in law (Ft. Wayne) work or worked for GM and my father worked for Lear. So I am far from a basher. My family has put blood, sweat, tears, and multiple surgeries into working for GM. I am proud to be a part of GM, I have lived for and by GM my entire life. But I'm smart enough to realize the end of the line just might be here. The days of Gm owning 50% or even 30% of car sales is long gone. At no fault of the assemblers. Like Brainstorm said the Gazette just needs a puff piece every 3 months to get the hopes up. No offense, but the good days of GM in Janesville are gone, if it comes back it will be a different company with very different wages and benefits. As the article implies: "Reuss said. “What we want to do is something that may not be traditional in terms of how we do it and how we staff it and how we bring it on and off.” To me that doesn't sound very promising. But if you want to wait around and hope for that, good luck to you! :-)

I expect that the upcoming Obama Job Stimulus will cover the re-tooling of the GM plant, the constuction of a nuclear power plant in Georgia, and much much more.

Look, it might be possible, but it would take a sustained economic rebound to bring any sort of realistic possibility of the Janesville plant coming back to life. Is it possible? Yeah. Is it likely? Maybe. Is it imminent? Heck no. They would have to think long and hard before they sink the millions of dollars back into the plant to make it operational.

I would love to see GM come back, but I am not banking on it. Even if GM were to come back, I may not, or maybe could not come back.If GM were to somehow regain more market share, I don't think putting some money back into the GM Janesville plant would even be an issue. GoPackers, a GM employee? You sound more like a GM basher. Agree with Brainstorm? Huh?

copo9561 - nice name! do you own one?

Elmo: I too am a GM employee and come from a GM family, it doesn't change my opinion. I have moved on, I suggest you do the same, if you haven't already.
Kraut: The only reason Ford didn't need a hand out is because they put the entire company, even the logo, up for collateral to borrow money before the big credit crunch.
Brainstorm: I completely agree with you.

Someone said something about buying a Ford...I don't know if they're still doing it but for a few years they were making vehicles that had power to the brake fluid sensor that NEVER shut off, they were ACTUALLY designed that way and a number of them caught fire during the night INSIDE garages.Brake fluid is nice and flammable too...Real nice thing with an attached garage...NO Fords for me, NO WAY!!

Please give it up. GM is not coming back to Janesville. The plant is empty and would cost millions to retool and get operational. There are other plants that can handle the production just fine. It amazes me that this topic comes up every three months- different headline, same old (mis)information.

Hank, you really know what you are talking about? Issues with attendance, Monday night game, disability issues, etc.? GM liked Janesville.It was the economy, and possibly a more modern plant in Arlington that did us in.

Maybe Sheridan could start dating Reuss to help win favor to re-open the plant.

It is a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng shot that's for sure!!!

Overtime on Sat. starts 3/20 in Kc so the LaCrosse & Malibu are going to start catching up!

The harsh reality is that people need to move on and not count on it!

Where are the Gm bashers? I know these articles are like beating a dead horse in Janesville, but if (big if) the plant were to reopen, the bashers would be the first ones in line to fill out an application. Janesville does not have the capability to do stamping where other plants do! That makes a big diff.! Everyone that gets bent by the articles on Gm need to relax. Gm was a huge part of Janesville and will continue to be. Everyone must agree that when Gm was open life was better! Families were together, no one had to drive 8 hours every weekend to see spouses and children, and more money was being spent in Janesville!

GoPackers. Am a GM employee. While you are right in your observation that Spring Hill may have some distinct tooling advantages over Janesville, there is a lot more than just that to be negotiated.Right now, Tennessee seems to be concerned with other matters. Tennessee is bringing a new Volkswagen plant to Knoxville. One of Tennessee's biggest negotiators on this project is a Senator, who is widely hated by the UAW for failure to already have a GM product in Tennessee. His name is Bob Corker. Senator Bob is widely hated by virtually every Spring Hill employee for what they see as a GM fiasco.Politics, and many other factors as well. A future product in Janesville? I hope so. Still see it as a longshot, though.

Now that it has been decided that Guantanamo Bay is going to be moved to IL, I don't see any real future for the Janesville GM plant. I did hear today that Obama is giving the go ahead to nuclear energy expansion. Maybe we can turn it into a big nuke plant!

Was it a slow news day or what?? This is just the same article worded a little different with some new numbers figured in. They will work overtime, Saturday and Sundays before they retool an old run down plant. They will go with Spring Hill before they go with Janesville. Its already set up to build multiple models. JMO

Most people would think they died and went to heaven to make that kind of money!! Let's see 0000000 dollars & hour,10 dollars & hour,I rest my case fool!!

i totally agree copo9561 u take what u can get beggers cannot be choosers i am in that situation now and i would bust my butt for $10 and no benefits! just to keep a roof over my head clothes on my childrens back and food on the table!you do what u have to do and take what u need to, to survive!

when your little city dries up, and your unemployment has ran out that 32 hours @ ten dollars a hour could just feed your family.

"He said if a shuttered U.S. plant reopens, it would operate in a more flexible, innovative way."

Yea, 32 hours a week per employee, $10.00 an hour and no benefits.