GM Workers Who Built Defective Cars Fret About Recall
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When Glenn Johnson got an early heads-up from management that General Motors Co. was recalling its Chevrolet Cobalt for an ignition-switch defect, his first reaction was unprintable.
Like many of his colleagues at the Lordstown Assembly Plant in Ohio, where the Cobalt was made, Johnson, 56, wondered how a flaw in a part had slipped through the cracks and led to the deaths of at least 13 people.