GM Spring Hill Survives Latest Round Of Layoffs

Layoffs in the automotive industry are as common as a winter cold, but when General Motors announced worldwide layoffs Monday, impacting more than 1,000 salaried employees in its software and services division. The Spring Hill GM plant in Tennessee was unscathed by the job cuts, according to authorities.

General Motors employs more than 3,000 workers in its Maury County facility, where it produces vehicles like the Cadillac XT5, Cadillac XT6 and the second-generation GMC Acadia.

The layoffs are the result of a review of operations following the exit of GM executive Mike Abbott, who served as the executive vice president of software and services before leaving the company in March due to health reasons.

The plant in Spring Hill originally opened in 1990 to build Saturn cars and has since expanded to the current 11 million-square-foot facility rolling electric and gas-powered cars off of its assembly line.