Nowadays when jobs are being cut in every single sector, GE will be creating new jobs. GE’s CEO and chairman announced yesterday that GE will be creating 1,200 more jobs in Michigan. GE is building a center for manufacturing technology. Worth $100-million.

Michiganders can start applying for jobs next week. According to the governor, Jennifer Granholm, the new jobs will pay approximately $100,000 per year.

Immelt said that Michigan was picked over other places as the appropriate location for the technology manufacturing center due to the skilled local talent.

Immelt said in a news conference at Townsend Hotel, “The University of Michigan is one of the biggest feeders into the GE system. We’ve been long believers in the quality education of the state … . We can tap into some of the great labor resources that are already existing in the state.”

The governor is delighted by this as it will help her in her campaign which was not going very well before due to the collapsing auto industry.

According to Immelt, the center will start operating at the end of this year.