Ohio GM Workers Voted for Trump. Now They Want Him to ‘Step Up’
- GM announced idling of plant in region key to his 2016 victory
- Lordstown counting on president’s vow he’ll pressure automaker
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President Donald Trump said he expects General Motors to keep an Ohio assembly complex open after its production of the Chevrolet Cruze ends early next year. Bryan Keeley said he wants to believe it, but he’s heard talk like that before.
Keeley is one of the thousands of workers at GM’s Lordstown factory near Youngstown who learned that the plant is being idled in March, with no new production promised. He said he voted for Trump two years ago because of the Republican’s vow to help American workers.