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GM Squeezed $118 Million From Its Ohio Workers, Then Shut The Plant
- UAW agreed to cut skilled-trade jobs and use contractors
- Workers now deciding if they should transfer or wait it out
The GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
Photographer: Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg
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The union hall in Lordstown, Ohio, is a hive of confusion, anxiety and anger. Mostly anger.
Three weeks after employees at the town’s General Motors Co. compact car plant assembled their last Chevrolet Cruze, employees are filing into the United Auto Workers Local 1112 hall to sign up for unemployment benefits and try to figure out if they should take a transfer to another GM plant, or wait it out in the one factory most have ever worked and see if it survives.