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GM Firing 1,500 Workers Undermines Trump's Boasts on Auto Jobs
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Carmaker plans to cut a shift at Ohio plant making Chevy Cruze
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Trump claims ‘beautiful, brand new auto plants’ being built
General Motors Co. will fire as many as 1,500 workers at the end of June at the Ohio factory building the Chevrolet Cruze compact car, undercutting President Donald Trump’s bombast about bringing back auto jobs.
The Lordstown assembly plant will operate on only one shift as part of the cutback, spokeswoman Dayna Hart said in an email. The company will be roughly halving the workforce at the factory, though Hart wrote that it’ll remain open for the foreseeable future.
