Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Not A Car Plant, But...
The new T-Mobile facility in Chattanooga is a very good thing. 800 new jobs is no small number, and while they may not be the type of high-paying manufacturing jobs that the elusive "Project Pinetree" might bring us, these are good positions:
The company plans to start with about 120 to 150 workers, and it will be about a year before T-Mobile hires the 800 anticipated employees, Mr. Birrer said. Most jobs, with a starting base of $9 an hour, will be full time and come with a benefits package, he said.They don't quite qualify as "high-tech" jobs in the most intellectually honest sense of the word, but if you don't know your way around a computer, you won't get these jobs. That underscores the need for strong retraining programs as part of an larger economic development strategy. Plus, this means tech support people who are not being outsourced... that's a good thing for any T-Mobile customer, to be sure.
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