After crisis, GM expected to add 400 jobs at 3 plants

General Motors is expected to add 400 jobs this year at three plants that were temporarily idled during the automaker’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but later reopened, according to a new study.

GM’s Orion Assembly plant and Pontiac Metal Center in Michigan and Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee employed 3,000 workers in 2013, according to the Ann Arbor-based Center for Automotive Research.

Those three facilities are expected to employ 3,400 workers in 2014, the nonprofit estimated in a study financed by the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources.