F rom 85,000 applicants, Volkswagen has hired more than 1,500 workers and begun filling second-shift production jobs at its Chattanooga auto assembly plant.
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The 500th Chattanooga Passat rolls of the line.“We are on schedule with our hiring plan,” Hans-Herbert Jagla, executive vice president of human resources, said Wednesday.
The German automaker expects to hire between 2,000 and 2,500 workers in Chattanooga and so far has brought on 674 production team members, according to VW. Its aim is to drive that number to 1,200.
VW employee Comekia Mikes, of Chattanooga, hired about a year ago, said the job has been better than expected.
“I thought we’d come in and they’d show us what to do. They took time to care about us,” she said. “They showed that it was about us.”