Executives at General Motors (GM) closed the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant last month — resulting in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 American workers — despite major concessions from the United Auto Workers (UAW), new details reveal.
Last month, GM CEO Mary Barra closed the Lordstown plant, a decision expected to result in the layoff of more than 8,000 American workers in the area, and allegedly blamed the UAW for the plant’s closure in a phone conversation with President Trump.
“Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant … I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
New details from Bloomberg News reveal a very different story. Documents note that the UAW agreed to make nearly $120 million a year in concessions to keep the Lordstown plant open in 2017 and were stunned by the announcement in late 2018 that the Lordstown plant would eventually close.
Dan Morgan, shop chairman of UAW Local 1112, detailed the concessions to Bloomberg News that GM workers at the Lordstown plant were willing and ready to make before Barra decided to close the plant altogether.
“Everything they asked us to do, we did,” Morgan said. “And still, we don’t have a product to build.”
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8 comments:
Another female in charge of something that is a failure , me too , you rock.
The UAW concessions to GM included:
Saving $3 million a year by merging UAW Locals 1112 and 1714
Somebody please tell me how consolidating unions saves money for the company.
The taxpayers bailed out GM under Obama by giving the Unions the equity invested by the bond holders. Find another employer before you ask to be bailed out of GM’s greed again. Find another car manufacturer. There are lots of them.
Government Motors is a failure in so many ways. Will NEVER buy a GM vehicle...
GMC, Government Made Cars, Don't expect anything truthful coming from this company that is still tainted with obama money.
no gm products for me..bail em out and we get this crap...UAW is also a bigger part of the problem so fagetboutit.
5:30 In the auto plants the union has a large staff and offices. The union staff workers in the office and on the floor don't turn a wrench or bolt a part but are on the company payroll anyhow. So merging two locals could provide a savings at the plant and return more workers to production. The Jeep Liberty plant in Toledo had a union office area easily as large as the former WCBOE headquarters.
There is plenty of blame to go around on both sides.
Last time I purchased a Gm car was in 2003 which was a pontiac vibe, which was actually a toyota matrix. Since then I only own Honda and Toyota. I traded in the 2003 Vibe for a Toyota Tacoma, and my other car is a 2015 Honda Accord. They quality is better and they hold up for the long term. My friends and relatives who own GM vehicles have had nothing but problems with them. I've own Fords as well in my youth, and my biggest problem with them was the starters would eventually fail and would need replacing. I bought a new 85 Thunderbird, and after one month, the cruise control switch fell off in my hand. I told it to the dealership and they would not honor the warranty on it!! Since then, I have never purchased a Ford car or truck again.
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