GM to Add 600 Jobs in Brazil

General Motors recently announced that it will hire 600 new workers at three Brazilian factories in the state of Sao Paulo to keep up with the growing demand for the models assembled locally. The Brazilian division of General Motors revealed in a statement that 250 workers will be hired at the Sao Caetano do Sul and Sao Jose dos Campos facilities while the Mogi das Cruzes factory will receive an extra 100 employees.

Curiously, GM's Brazilian operations were affected by a strike earlier this year when the 10,500 employees working at GM’s Sao Caetano do Sul plant and the 8,500 people from the San Jose dos Campos facility decided to stop work and demand a more significant wage raise.

But General Motors has always seen Brazil as a key market, with the company opening in September the biggest technical center in Latin America after investing a total of $100 million.

“GM do Brasil was elected by GM as one of the global product development centers in 2006. Since then, we have started to invest on new buildings and resources to increase our engineering and design expertise to fully comprehend the entire process of designing, building and validating vehicles for Brazil and the global market," said Jaime Ardila, president GM do Brasil and Mercosur.

"The expansion of the tech center in São Caetano do Sul is fundamental to support the company’s initiative to refresh its portfolio and to offer to the Brazilian customers the best cars and trucks in the market," José Carlos Pinheiro Neto, vice-president GM do Brasil, added.