GE’s American Jobs Map: 14,500 New Jobs Announced Since 2009

Tony

This is great that GE is investing in our children’s future!! Thank you.

George D.

How do you “announce PLANS to create over 8,000 jobs in the U.S in the LAST 18 months”? Either you created the jobs in the last 18 months or you did not. You announce plans to create jobs in the future, but when talking about the last 18 months, I would expect to hear that they actually were created. The fact is Neutron Jack Welch elminated jobs when he ran the ship….Offshore Jeff Immelt is simply moving them to India and China. Also points to what is wrong with the Obama administration; Obamas job czar is responsible for shipping more jobs overseas that he has created at home… I know… I watched the jobs of 700 of my co-workers (including mine) go to India since 2002. And all they do is continue to manufacture the very product we designed 12 years ago… they have designed NOTHING NEW in 9 years… incredible.

Shahbaz Alibaig

It is great to see GE taking a leadership role in helping the job market in US.

brenda merritt

how many jobs of the 100 in North Carolina will be at the Mebane Plant?

Scott M

George D…..you need to keep up with the news a little closer……PLANS mean they have announced expansion to existing or green-field plants to be built. I am part of one of those green field plants and I’m proud to see GE expanding within our country’s boundaries. Sure there have been jobs come and go as each business of GE has its own unique situation(s). The fact is, while other companies are moving completely out, GE is at least making the effort to continue to invest in domestic production and jobs…..which is what this country needs. Its been the core of our existance as a great country since the industrial revolution.

TonyB

“The last two decades were about improving the population, making CHINA the factory of the world”….this is a direct quote from our new job czar on a visit to Guangzhou, China back in May. It would be interesting to have another graph showing the job lost or out sourced (X-ray, etc…) since Mr. Immelt took the helm of a once great company.

GE Reports Editor

George and Tony, thanks for your comments.

As Scott points out, George, this map shows locations where GE has announced plans, in the last 18 months, to expand or build new facilities. The jobs won’t exist until the expansion or new construction is finished.

For example, just the other week, GE Aviation and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced a new plant to be built in Ellisville, Mississippi that will create 250 high tech jobs. The plant will be 300,000 square feet and will manufacture composite components for aircraft engines and systems that will be used all over the world. The plant is scheduled to open in 2013.

Tony, on the X-Ray Division of GE Healthcare. There have been some inaccurate reports. The Company announced that it would move 4 executives to China to lead the development of specific products for use
in China. GE is the second largest exporter in the United States, and China is a growing market. Having a presence in growing markets is critical for GE and the United States as we look for ways to remain
competitive and create jobs at home.

Don S.

George D. is right on.
I have associates in each and every one of these states and there has not been even one single permit issued to G.E or any of it’s partners to build or expand anything., factory or otherwise.
1120 jobs in the Eastern Kentucky mountains–1320 jobs on Michigan (110 corporate and 200 aviation)
Not ONE of the major news networks has mentioned any of these jobs “to be created”.
IF any of this is true—GE has managed to keep the biggest secret in the world
Their advertisement(s) is simply not true. Shame.

GE Reports Editor

Don S, thanks for your comment.

Please see this link for additional information on GE’s expansion of its appliance business in Kentucky: http://www.gereports.com/ges-new-plant-investments-now-top-1b-create-over-1300-jobs/

Also please check out the “Jobs” tab at the top of the page to see all GE Reports stories on job creation from the last two years for more details on many of the locations shown on the map.

Gina

Here’s an editing suggestion to clarify the disconnect between past, present and future in the above posting: Over the last 18 months, GE announced expansion plans which, when complete, will create over 8,000 jobs in the U.S..

Dan

I’m curious to the percentage of jobs created here in the US in the last 10 years to the number of jobs moved over seas.Also Ge reports editor sated that China is a growing market well when our large corporations keep moving all the manufacturing over to China instead of here in America well I would say they are growing and our market is falling. I guess i need to do some more research I was under the understanding General Electric was founded here in the US not anywhere overseas, so why isn’t an American company more worried about the American people instead of the rest of the world.

Ruth B.

Is it true that G.E. is moving X-ray jobs from Wisc. to China and also moving their headquarters there? I just rec’d an e-mail telling this.

GE Reports Editor

Ruth, on the X-Ray Division of GE Healthcare: there have been some inaccurate reports. The Company announced that it would move a total of 4 healthcare executives to China to lead the development of specific products for use in China. GE is the second largest exporter in the United States, and China is a growing market. Having a presence in growing markets is critical for GE and the United States as we look for ways to remain competitive and create jobs at home.

marilyn stevenson

Is it true that GE is planning to move X-Ray division from Wisconsin to Beijing and investing $2 billion in China?

GE Reports Editor

Marilyn, see my comment just above yours on the X-Ray Division of GE Healthcare.

Cathy&Ed Ertel

We have been devoted to GE for at least 44 years. And my dad also was devoted and worked for GE for 25 years – shareholders for that period of time too. Please tell us that you aren’t taking jobs to China from GE’s X-Ray division in Wisconsin. Anxious shareholders, Ed and Cathy Ertel

Janet

Now ge will be building jets in china.more jobs that should stay in American.immelt Is job czar for Obama.ge doesn’t pay taxes.this company is antiAmerican

Curious

Are these new jobs actual new positions which did not exist before; or are they jobs which are new to GE, but which had been existing jobs in acquired companies?

GE Reports Editor

Thanks, Cathy, Ed, Janet and Curious for your comments/questions. Will try to tackle all of them.

First, Curious, all of the 8,000+ jobs illustrated on the map are new positions at GE (none are existing positions at acquired companies).

On the story from this week about GE aviation’s agreement in China: The agreement sends no jobs to China; in fact, it creates jobs in the U.S. Even though the project will be headquartered in Shanghai, it will support at least 300 high-tech jobs each in the US and China – and that number is expected to grow in each country. In the US, the majority of the jobs supporting the joint venture will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Clearwater, Florida. In all, GE Aviation’s work in China translates into about 1,800 GE high-technology jobs in the U.S.

Finally, on GE Healthcare’s X-Ray Division and China: At the end of July, the Company announced that it would move 4 executives to China to lead the development of specific products for use in China. GE is the second largest exporter in the United States and China is a growing market. Having a presence in growing markets is critical for GE and the United States as we look for ways to remain competitive and create jobs at home.

A GE announcement also at the end of July is a great example of how that works. GE said it will build a manufacturing plant in Mississippi that will create 250 high tech jobs. The new 300,000 square foot plant will manufacture composite components for aircraft engines and systems that will be used all over the world.

For more on jobs, please see the “Jobs” tab above, for all of our coverage of manufacturing growth in the U.S.

Dave T

I think what we are seing is a shift in the US role… These initiatives are a catalyst for skilled pofessional jobs, but at the expense of entry level labor and manufacturing… I would think the unions would be most contentious to these shifts… but they drove the need for these changes inadvertantly to begin with.

J.T. Donovan

IF GE IS SO WONDERFUL, SO BIG, SO SET ON OPENING NEW JOBS IN THE USA, WHY ARE THEY MOVING THEIR X-RAY MFG TO CHINA? ALSO WHY DON’T THEY PAY ANY US TAXES? ALSO WHY IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS, IF THEY ARE SO GREAT, HAS THEIR STOCK GONE FROM $50.+/- PER SHARE TO NOW AROUND 19.00,HAVING BEEN DOWN TO $5.00.? WHY DON’T THEY PAY A DECENT DIVIDEND?
THIS SUPER SENIOR WIDOW HAS LOST SO MUCH FROM THE BIG AMOUNT OF SHARES HER HUSBAND PURCHASED BACK IN 2007. GET WITH IT GE AND GIVE US SOME BETTER ANSWERS,
AND GIVE US SUFFERING STOCK HOLDERS A BREAK.

Gil Nadeau

Sorry Editor, I would have to agree with the detractors above that insist GE has sent many more jobs over seas then they have created at home in the US over the past 20 years. Does anyone remember when GE stopped making motors? Then all of a sudden we start seeing GE motors again, only they are made in Brazil. Smae with transformers. GE sold the transformer bussiness to Westinghouse in the late 80s and now GE makes transformers again, only in Mexico. The same goes for many of the energy products like the smaller industrial combustion turbines. We could go on and talk about the IT help desk to if you want. When was the last time you got some one on the phone and and spoke to someone from the US? It’s nice that some new jobs are being created but it would be nice if the company brought back some of the jobs that were lost due to moving manufactring overseas. Does anyone remember when Schenectady was a booming town?

Paul

Are there any positions being created on the West Coast and Inter-Mountain States? If not, what would explain that?

Lavanya

Really great to see that GE taking a leadership role in helping the job market in US.I hope soon we will get in India too.

GE Retiree

I retired from GE Aviation, working all of my years in R&D. The last year I worked, we had over ~$900 million in our R&D budget. It was mandatory to spend over 50% overseas. For example work went to Mexico (drafting), fabrication went to Italy and Mexico, all jobs that could have been USA sourced and were one time GE jobs. I heard all of the stories on why it made sense, but the botton line is if our country is to survive and be self sufficient, decent paying jobs must exist, people must be willing to work and everyone including CEO’s must have a attitude that says “America First.” If all that remains is $8/hour jobs, we’ll continue to slide downhill and rapidly become a 3rd world country.

Gary

I would like to see a reply to Dan’s question as it is one I had myself.

Fundamentally it is one of the more important questions because as more and more North American and European jobs get exported not only do the standards of living in the west decline as we all fight harder for the few jobs remaining. The trade deficits increase allowing these foriegn countries (some communist) to hold influence and control our national interests.

I am perplexed how corporations who owe their history to the people of the countries they originate from are so willing to sell the souls of so many for a good quarter.

So I would appreciate a responce to Dan’s question.

Dale S

Jack Welch at one time, made a frightening comment, if it doesn’t make economic sense then GE should not invest. What I am now hearing from Jeff Immelt is taking risks is a big part of what this Company is about. The Green initiatives toward renewable energy is critcal to my grand daughters survival on this planet. Monies spent in these areas don’t make economic sense now because there is no existing market. The size and timing of this future market is a guessing game. It takes a Company with a vision and Leadership courage to continue to make both the capital and human investments necessary. These investments definitely need to be made in this country as I believe they are strategic, the same as we view our military expenditures.

Unfortunately, the funds required for these initiatives must come from profits made by doing the right thing today. In my day these were the Cash Cows providing funding for the future. Business moves to both China and India in my view are the Cash Cows of today, involving old designs and mature products.

Adam Cohen

I am an engineer @ GE Healthcare here in Wisconsin. We are still making X-ray here so everyone calm down. Jeff is at least right about one thing. We need to train more engineers in this country! We have to BRING people from other countries (read China and India) to even do these sophisticated jobs. Come on America, don’t blame GE for trying to run a successful company. The world has changed and we have refused to adapt. At least we still have tons of barristas to go around. We can’t all just do each other’s nails and cut each other’s hair or sell each other stuff. WE HAVE TO START MAKING THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY! BUT NO ONE REMEMBERS HOW TO DO IT!

Dick, R

Retired from GE Lighting. Recent e-mail, making the rounds, re: Buy made in USA, indicated that while shopping for a light bulb the GE bulb was made in Mexico and was more expensive than a competitors, comparable wattage bulb made in Cleveland, Ohio; which is the HOME of GE Lighting. How can this be? Is GE no longer making Light Bulbs in the Greater Cleveland area? Trained Engineers are not required to make a Light Bulb. The manufacturing process must still require some human intervention for the the Light Bulb to get to the marketplace, and I don’t believe that human needs a college degree.

William (GE Retiree)

My final days as a GE buyer were spent sourcing everything I could from China. The other buyers in my location were doing he same thing. We were measured on it! Our business even hired a Chinese national and move him to the US tn order to increase the purchased amount. We spent tens of millions trying to make this work. Then we were instructed to purchase from Mexico and evidently moved a product line to Mexico as part of a joint venture. It failed and was moved back in just a few years. Our domestic suppliers suffered and our employees were laid off. The stock value did not grow and the dividend was evidently cut. Wow, what happened!
I do believe that we can manufacture goods in the USA. We must make this happen if our kids are to have real jobs and a future. GE / Mr. Immelt has a wonderful opportunity to make great things happen using the cash resources available. Jack Welch once said “if we can’t be number one or number two, get out of the business”. Today, this country needs the jobs more than GE needs the profits. What if GE had a “breakeven” (I know that this is a dirty word) business that employed a lot of out of work people. I can’t see this is a bad thing. Give me a billion or two and I am pretty sure that I can put some people to work without losing the initial dollars.
Now for a couple of suggestions to the leaders of GE;
GET OUT AND STAY OUT OF POLITICS. Focus on running the company. This is a full time job I am sure.
ADDRESS THE POOR PUBLIC IMAGE ISSUE. If GE is not as bad as some make it out to be, tell the real story. Everyone should know about the “American Jobs” chart. Motivate the public to buy GE as a job creator and an USA company. I know that GE can create jobs in every state.This will help the sale of GE;s products and services. Ask the public to buy GE and give them a reason.
Final suggestion and comment. Create a split dividend scale. Pay a greater amount to the shareholders who earned their shares while working at GE. The old timers like myself will most likely spend the money immediately on hearings aids and golf balls. GE has served my and my family well and I in turn served the company well for many years. Thank you GE and God Bless the USA.

dan

Businesses, big and small (including the corner street vendor) exist to make the most PROFIT possible
for STOCKHOLDERS and UPPER MANAGEMENT. In order to do so, all businesses’(including the corner street vendor) real income ( and calculated income reported on income and stockholders reports)must exceed real expenses. One way to increase real income is to increase the margin of profit, another is to increase the volume of sales. India and China do both. They make the products for less than North Americans (thus increasing the margin of profit), and they very often buy the products (thus increasing the volume of sales). Just as the street vendor seeks the busiest location to increase the volume of sales,
so do some big businesses. The opportunity to increase a potential market by 2,000,000,000 is an opportunity not to be ignored by STOCKHOLDERS, UPPER MANGEMENT or POLITICIANS.
You say it yourself..”I work for…..” not, ….works for me”

Fred

I am a retired GE employee & very concerned about the move of Medical Systems Headquaters to China. Both Tony on 8/8 & Ruth on 8/12 asked about this move & received a very evasive answer. In both instances the reporter referred to it as an inaccurate report stating that 4 executives were being moved to China but nothing about the headquarters & plant. What is the status of the plant in Wis.?

GE Reports Editor

Fred, thanks for your comment. First, check out Adam Cohen’s comment from 9/21, a few comments above yours. He’s an engineer at GE Healthcare in Wisconsin and as he says, X-rays are still being made in Wisconsin.

There have been some inaccurate reports about GE Healthcare’s X-Ray Division. GE did not move its X-ray operation to China. Yes, GE did announce in July that it was moving its X-ray headquarters from Waukesha to China — this “move” totals 4 GE executives. GE will not eliminate jobs in the United States or any of the other global X-Ray sites based on moving the headquarters of the business to China.

GE is the second largest exporter in the United States and China is a growing market. Having a presence in growing markets is critical for GE and the United States as we look for ways to remain competitive and create jobs at home. Take a look:

http://www.gereports.com/ge-and-china-growing-market-overseas-more-jobs-at-home/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=china%20aircraft&utm_campaign=GE%20Aviation%20Response&kmed=ppc

Bill Jarett

The news media is really giving GE a lot of really bad coverage. This, along with the stock market reports, have caused me to lose a lot of faith in the company, even though I am a retiree of 32 years. GE’s “public relations” seems to be non-existant in overcoming this lousy image to the public, as well as wall street. If the stories, as reported, are incorrect, then get the right stories out there, not just hidden in this little column. Jeffery Immelt’s tight connections with Obama do not help. If they have to be, then explain why and what they are doing for us. Get with it, get a new “Ronald Reagen” type representative, as we had years ago, and improve our image to the country and to the world !

Panson

I see some people are very angry about GE’s moving oversea in the last few decades. That was partially wrong policy caused by two causes. One is the always high payment in USA, and secondly the expanding market out of USA motivated big company to move oversea. As a company, earning more profit and keep running company well are reasonable, or they can not survive and grow up.

But such moving oversea of these big companies now result in serious problems in USA, especially the unemployment. US citizens’ angry to these companys is understandable. But why haven’t you also think of the one causes from yourselves, always require high payment, especially when in time of economy crisis, how these company can survive, why not make some compromise, for instance, reasonably low down the payment.

Some people also say stop buying GE’s products. There is a Chinese saying says, getting eggs by killing hens, is this method good for ourselves, and good for future USA? I don’t think so.

Most important is that we realized the problems, and we take action to adjust and correct the wrong policies, sometimes each of us need to sacrifice some things, make some compromises. Not only big company, but also for all of us should make some change. Every people like comfortable life, but how this life can be long, how about next generation?

bob

Since GE is so concerned with shipping all their jobs overseas, then let them find consumers for those products overseas. For me and my family we will not buy any product that GE has an interest in.

Dan Davis

Please advise to whom and where I should send my resume for the Aviation job opening in Mississippi.

GE Reports Editor

Dan,

Thanks for your interest in working at the new GE Aviation facility in Ellisville, MS. Construction has just begun on the new plant, which is expected to be finished by 2013. GE Aviation has not begun hiring yet for either hourly or managerial positions at the new facility; closer to opening, interested applicants should check for position listings on Miss Development (http://www.mississippi.org/index.php?id=1) for hourly positions and GE Careers (http://www.ge.com/careers/) for managerial positions.

Franklin

The chart showing future business growth shows a movement of jobs from what one would term manufacturing to “Infrastructure” – eventually to represent 67% of the Companies “Tomorrow” Revenue. Why would GE want to move in a direction that attaches GE revenues with Government spending at a time when the U.S. Government is broke? Further the chart shows that 33% of earnings will come from Finance and the remaining 67% from “Infrastructure”. Is Mr. Immelt going to get rid of all GE manufacturing? As a shareholder I’m appalled at the symbiotic relationship of GE and the Government.

Ken

I’ll believe it when I see it. GE I live in Laughlin NV were there about to turn 14 sq miles into a solar plant from china. Only 9 sq miles of my city will be left for us. Why couldn’t you invest in us?

Bob Petersen

Couldn’t Jeff go on Fox and make the case? Jack is already on Fox! Fox has the biggest viewership!

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lindseyterry

that is good for ge two

arjun

last few years back am searching job in GE i have send alots of applications but no more response for me I have some knowledge in GE company because Like to work as sales engineer or any field am from India arjun

tom allen

i have an easy answer, bring back tariffs and stop unfair trade practices and we will have jobs . you know how to compete with 3rd world countrys ? you have to become one !!

Constance DeStasio

I just received this email: Subject: GE leaves USA I am just a small time consumer but if you multiply us we do hold some heavy buying power. Please stop out sourcing our jobs

General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha , Wis. , to Beijing . In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States .
So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.

Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.

Linda Pallini

shame on your so called American company for taking food out of Americans mouths all for the sake of making rich ceo’s. richer. I like others who get this message will let you feel it at the stores when we boycott you out of business.

JBM

Folks, I hear your pain, I’m un-employed myself as a Sr. Design Eng’r with over 30 years experience to offer, but no takers…! I worked very hard as a Contractor for almost a year last year/this year at G.E. Energy in CT and I really loved the Job and the people that I worked with allot, one of the best Jobs that I ever worked as a Contractor… However, one MUST realize that Corporations do NOT ‘care for the person’ who does the work no matter where they work for the Corporation, or how hard, etc… This is a cold, hard fact of life today… (Only God Almighty and His Son Jesus Christ cares for each of us, personally speaking…!) Furthermore, a point needs to be made here: Corporations NEVER, EVER pay any taxes, not one, single Penny…! The people who BUY their Products pay ALL of the Taxes of the Corporation…!!! So, IF you or I could legally and lawfully ‘shrink’ our own, personal ‘tax burden’, who wouldn’t do so in a heart-beat…?!? Conclusion; IF you want to pay more of your hard-earned (and shrinking!) Money for the Products that a Corporation makes and sells you, please, please go ahead and insist’ that they pay more in taxes, (even when they find a way to legally reduce their tax liability) etc…! And, further than that, in this way, both sides of the political parties in this country evade their own Professional responsibilities to keep ‘Godverment’ under control via spending on a tight, managable budget, (like how the rest of us have to live!) and instead USE these Corporations as an ‘excuse’ to increase the taxes THAT WE PAY, as an ‘indirect’ tax to us the ‘Consumers’ as shown in the above explanation…! Loving your neighbor as yourself means that one should not wish a tax burden upon them that they do NOT have, nor insist that they ‘did something wrong’ by ‘not paying their fair share somehow…!?! God forbid, who are we to ‘judge and condemn’ anyway…???

JBM

I forgot to add that ‘the power to tax’ is the ‘power to destroy’, which is a ‘godverment’ function, however limited that it is… It is NOT a Corporate function, so lets solve the problem with the corrupt Politicains out their who try to lie and decieve us all…!

Bobbie Sorich

Opened my email this morning to find several demands to boycott anything with the GE logo. You’ve got a lot of people upset with the overseas jobs/manufacturing no tax issues. Makes me long for the good old days when I could be assured that America and her residents/citizens were great because we took care and built/provided for ourselves. I don’t care if you pay taxes or not as long as you go back to being one of the manstays of employment here. We have a lot of returning men and women who have been in foreign areas fighting for a country – our country, that are going to need jobs. Are they going to have to go to yet another foreign country to find one? I wonder how proud Ronald Reagan would be today to be the spokesperson for GE?