March 29, 2024, 01:39:27 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: NEW CHILD BOARD CREATED IN THE POLITICAL SECTION FOR THE 2016 ELECTION
 
   Home   Help Login Register  
Pages: 1   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: GM to lay off 1,000 in Lordstown; Ford trimming production  (Read 1210 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
WhiskeyGirl
Monkey All Star Jr.
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 7754



« on: November 07, 2008, 08:44:30 PM »

Quote
GM to lay off 1,000 in Lordstown; Ford trimming production

Posted by Robert Schoenberger/Plain Dealer Reporter November 07, 2008 19:38PM

A General Motors logo is shown on a plant through a fence. Union leaders say about 1,000 GM workers will be laid off in Lordstown.

About 1,000 workers at General Motors Corp.'s plant in Lordstown will be laid off in January without the generous union benefits autoworkers typically get, labor leaders say.

"Hopefully, it doesn't last long," Jim Graham, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112 in Lordstown, said late Friday.

GM is putting 3,600 workers at 10 plants on indefinitely long layoffs next year, company spokesman Tony Sapienza said. He said he did not know how many would lose jobs in Lordstown.

The layoffs are part of an effort by Detroit's largest automaker to cut costs and stay alive. At the rate they're going, America's two biggest car makers will be broke by the end of May.


http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/11/ap_fileunion_leaders_say_about.html
Logged

All my posts are just my humble opinions.  Please take with a grain of salt.  Smile

It doesn't do any good to hate anyone,
they'll end up in your family anyway...
Pages: 1   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Use of this web site in any manner signifies unconditional acceptance, without exception, of our terms of use.
Powered by SMF 1.1.13 | SMF © 2006-2011, Simple Machines LLC
 
Page created in 2.118 seconds with 20 queries.