Recruitment of 55-60 team leader positions at the Spring Hill General Motors plant will begin in two weeks — and all of them will be filled locally, a top union official told local government officials.

According to the Daily Herald of Colombia, Tennessee, United Auto Workers (UAW) [branch] 1853 bargaining chairman Mike Herron said that, of the 2,500 workers who were dispersed to other plants across the country when GM idled the Spring Hill assembly plant in 2009, 340 have the right to return because of contractual agreements — what he called a “small fraction” of those needed to work in the Spring Hill plant.

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Although the application process had closed for those 55-60 team leader jobs, which will be involved in the production of the Chevrolet Equinox, Herron said there would be numerous opportunities in the future for local citizens to gain employment at the plant.

“I can’t put a specific number to it,” he said of the jobs. “But as we move forward in the future, there will be a significant amount of people who will be hired here locally.”

He said that no official process had been set up yet to allow job seekers to apply.

Herron had approached Maury County commissioners during a county safety committee meeting to urge them to consider purchasing GM products for the sheriff’s patrol car fleet. He cited news reports of Chattanooga officials investing in Volkswagen vehicles for their law enforcement officers in an attempt to rally behind the city’s new auto plant.

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During that discussion, he was asked about the job prospects for local workers at the GM plant.