General Motors is no longer responsible for its promise to create 1,360 jobs at a Lansing battery plant it developed with LG Energy Solution, marking the latest in a long line of snubs from one of the state’s largest employers in recent years.

Members of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan Strategic Fund board voted Tuesday to allow GM to back out of it’s agreement to create 1,360 jobs at an Ultium Cells battery plant that received $120 million from taxpayers, the Detroit Free Press reports.

GM announced in December it would sell its stake in its joint venture with South Korea-based LG Energy Solution to recoup about $1 billion, then inked a deal with a Norwegian battery supplier two months later.

The vote on Tuesday removed references to GM from the state’s corporate incentive contract for Ultium Cells, resulting in the $120 million from taxpayers and the job requirements tied to it shifting to LG.

“Changing the terms of the deal with the board’s approval removes the risk of a claw-back, or the instance of the Michigan Strategic Fund suing the company to return taxpayer dollars,” according to the Free Press. “Separating from the agreement means GM is no longer responsible for the Lansing plant’s success.”

The deal was part of a broader incentive package negotiated in secret by the Whitmer administration and select lawmakers that was the largest in state history at $666 million.

The package included $66 million for the Lansing Economic Area Partnership to assist with site preparation for the Ultium Cells plant, $120 million for the plant itself, and $480 million to retool an Orion Township plant for EVs.

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With zero jobs created and before work was completed, the Michigan Treasury paid out the entire $600 million for the GM projects in the second half of 2023.

And while GM remains obligated to crate 1,840 jobs and invest $4 billion in the Orion Township facility, the company has pushed back plans there by at least year.

“General Motors is demonstrating, once again, a troubling pattern of fleecing Michigan taxpayers and workers,” Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Twp., said following GM’s December decision to back out of the Ultium Cells deal. “Cutting a side deal to pull out of Michigan and keeping taxpayer money is egregious.”

The decision, of course, is only the latest example of GM snubbing Michigan taxpayers who have subsidized its operations for decades.

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GM dismissed dozens of salaried workers in January after reworking its employee performance evaluation system and bonus plan, just a couple months after cutting 1,000 salaried and hourly employees, including 507 at its Global Technology Center in Warren, in November, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Another 1,000 GM employees, including 600 at the Tech Center, were also let go in August, which followed voluntary buyouts for about 58,000 salaried workers earlier in the year.

In 2023, GM issued layoff notices for 369 in Lansing, 1,856 in Lake Orion, and 400 in Warren, according to WARNTracker.com.

Since 1989, GM has issued at least 59 layoff notices for 32,242 employees in 15 states, the vast majority in Michigan.

And while GM has continued to invest some in the Great Lakes State, it has also worked to shift its focus to operations elsewhere, with $632 million going to Fort Wayne and $500 million to Arlington, Texas in 2023.

That’s the same year GM started production at its Ramos Arizpe manufacturing complex in Mexico, where it invested over $1 billion to support its workforce of 5,600, according to Reuters.

Another $3 billion the same year went to construct a EV battery cell plant in Indiana that’s slated to create 1,700 jobs by the time it goes online in 2027, WSBT reports.

Those new investments followed GM’s move to close its Warren Transmission Plant in 2019 after 78 years of production, despite a bailout a decade earlier designed to save jobs that ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers $11.2 billion, according to the LA Times.