If you do the math estimates with the four-thousand employees at the plant...there’s probably another three-thousand jobs locally that filter down through this. More home construction, etc.
One should note as well...the mayor of Huntsville (Tommy Battle, GOP) has been awful active since assuming the office in 2008, in creating jobs. Toss in Remington, GE Aviation, and Polaris...along with dozens of small companies...well over 5,000 jobs created. The TEDAC project at Redstone will result in 4,000 FBI-related jobs over the next decade coming into the area.
Battle is up for the governor’s race in November, and at age 62...might be a Presidential candidate in 2024.
Most of these big job producing projects end up going to Huntsville and Mobile. It is a shame that the leadership in between can’t bring in anything on that scale.
Huntsville it is. Congratulations to the citizens even though a CEO would have to be crazy as a loon to consider either Birmmingham or Montgomery.
Huntsville makes sense. Home the Redstone Arsenal, lots of engineers and scientists. Think chemical weapons, ballistic missile development (Wernher von Braun), NASA space missions, etc.
Huntsville makes sense. Home the Redstone Arsenal, lots of engineers and scientists. Think chemical weapons, ballistic missile development (Wernher von Braun), NASA space missions, etc.
We have a Honda plant in Lincoln, AL and the Mercedes plant down near Tuscaloosa. Now these two. My nephew works at the Lincoln plant. NO UNION. They were told that they would be given a great pay scale, insurance, retirement plans to put into, etc., BUT the second they brought in a union, the plant was done, shut down. Great!!! My nephews says it is a fantastic job and he loves it there, that they are treated great. He makes good money. Outside on the highway there has been this union place trying for years now to get them to bring in the union. Every time that mob shows up, the employees tell them to hit the road, they are not losing their jobs so the union thugs can come in. The union office is now about a run down shack because it is going absolutely NO WHERE down in Lincoln at the Honda plant. Hopefully, it will stay that way. I don’t know about the Mercedes plant, if it is the same way, but it should be and hopefully these two up in Huntsville will do the same thing. Just treat the people right, pay them a fair wage, and they will work for you. Lincoln went from a small, back water river town, to having the best of everything. They got a brand new high school out on HW77 and a brand new elementary school next to it. They have a beautiful high school football stadium, big gym for basketball, a softball park for the girls teams and a big nice boys baseball field. They have a computer center building next to the elementary school, teaching the little critters young on the computers. Their old HS and old football field and stadium was a dump, falling down. Now, thanks to Honda, their community is one of the nicest in the area, right off I-20 for easy access.