General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it is bringing 1,200 autoworkers back to work this summer to start producing the Chevrolet Cruze compact car at a factory in northeast Ohio.
GM officials said roughly 400 of the jobs at the Lordstown factory will go to laid-off GM workers in the area, and the remaining positions will be open to GM employees across the U.S.
The jobs will be added to a third assembly-line shift sometime in the third quarter.
The Cruze, due out later this year, is a key product for GM as it tries to compete in the growing market for small cars. Production was recently put on hold because GM wasn’t happy with how it drove.
With the additional jobs, the plant’s work force will grow from 3,300 to 4,500.
Since July, GM has said it is restoring a total of 5,500 jobs at plants across the nation.
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