The idling of General Motors’ (GM) transmission plant in Warren, Michigan, is expected to cost about 16,000 jobs in the state over the next two years, analysis finds, as hundreds of laid-off American workers have already been uprooted.
Last week, GM CEO Mary Barra idled the 78-year-old Warren Transmission plant, leaving about 335 American workers laid off from their jobs and forcing them to either find new work in the area or uproot their lives to take jobs at the automaker’s other plants.
Barra, last year, announced GM would stop production at four of its U.S. plants, including Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission in Michigan, Lordstown Assembly in Ohio, and Baltimore Operations in Maryland. The Lordstown Assembly plant closure has resulted in the immediate layoff of about 1,500 American workers, while another 8,000 workers in supporting jobs in the community are expected to be laid off as well. GM, though, is still hoping to sell the plant to another manufacturer.
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8 comments:
No mystery...American workers through unions demand high wages and benefits as well as costly pensions to afford a comfortable life style. Foreign workers earn pennies on the dollar and work diligently while eking out a living. Also, we are victims of our own technology, machines don't need to take breaks or vacations and work holidays and overtime without complaining.
NEVER BUY GENERAL MOTORS!!! They are the most overpriced JUNK!!! Hard to believe people actually buy from these UN-AMERICAN companies. They leave THOUSANDS of AMERICANS jobless. Still expect you to buy their JUNK. PATHETIC!!
Tell us something we don't know. You haven't mentioned how the UNION bosses are in cohorts with management. How they get together and LIE to the American workers just to save a Buck. You haven't mentioned all the concessions the AMERICAN WORKERS had given up over the YEAR'S so they could PULL this SCAM.
Northwest Woodsman: Greed is also a factor here. Each manufacturer puts out an excessive line of vehicles in order to compete with other manufacturers. Is it really wise or necessary for Chevrolet or any other manufacturer to produce ten or eleven models of SUVs? I look at dealer lots and always notice that there is a surplus of vehicles that could never possibly be sold. They build way too many vehicles than can .be absorbed by consumers. Not withstanding the exorbitant prices they are asking.
In a union for 38yrs. You get it brother.
This must be the fault of Clinton or Obama
If we were a socialist country we would just bail them out like was done before at the expense of the American taxpayers. Oh,...that would be socialism and we are not socialists.
When the UNION leaders became EDUCATED and stopped being worker's. BEGINNING OF THE END!!
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