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Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published October 08, 2012
FoxNews.com

President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence "manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States,” but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds is putting workers on furlough before a single battery has been produced.

Workers at the Compact Power manufacturing facilities in Holland, Mich., run by LG Chem, have been placed on rotating furloughs, working only three weeks per month based on lack of demand for lithium-ion cells.
The facility, which was opened in July 2010 with a groundbreaking attended by Obama, has yet to produce a single battery for the Chevrolet Volt, the troubled electric car from General Motors. The plant's batteries also were intended to be used in Ford's electric Focus....................>>>>..............>>>>...................Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012.....rs-on/#ixzz28nc7l3hm