Factory has yet to ship out a single battery
Updated: Friday, 19 Oct 2012, 5:14 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 18 Oct 2012, 4:58 PM EDT
By Ken Kolker
HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) - Workers at
LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery plant heavily funded by taxpayers, tell Target 8 that they have
so little work to do that they spend hours playing cards and board games, reading magazines or watching movies.
They say it's been going on for months.
"There would be up to 40 of us that would just sit in there during the day," said former
LG Chem employee Nicole Merryman, who said she quit in May.
"We were given assignments to go outside and clean; if we weren't cleaning outside, we were cleaning inside. If there was nothing for us to do, we would study in the cafeteria, or we would sit and play cards, sit and read magazines," said Merryman. "It's really sad that all these people are sitting there and doing nothing, and it's basically on taxpayer money."
