Greenville County, SC

The CEO of Carbon Motors came to Greenville yesterday as part of the 2008 Pure Justice Tour for the Carbon ‘E7’. Here are some prepared remarks he made:

“Ladies and gentlemen – thank you. We are grateful to the state and local officials of South Carolina that made today possible and especially to the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research for their gracious and kind hospitality. Fellow Americans, our country is at a crossroads. You hear it every day on every news channel, from every leader, and from every neighbor. We are losing jobs at a staggering rate, our schools are crumbling, terrorists are threatening us, the energy crisis is forcing our hand, and the American dream is slipping away at a pace no one ever imagined.

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MAU Workforce Solutions, a staffing company that supplies BMW, N.A. with their temp workers, has forecast a loss of at least 500 jobs for the Upstate corporation come December. In fact, the number could be as high as 733 lost jobs.

Most layoffs are on the production line, with more coming from logistics. Affected individuals have already been notified and will be paid through the Christmas holiday. MAU promises to help individuals find new jobs, and there are high hopes many will be hired back once BMW’s current expansion project is completed.

In another sign of the bad economic times, even the behemoth BMW is experiencing a rough patch, proven by the fact that 75% of their new Z4 line is being shipped overseas.

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