GM set to end production at Ohio plant Wednesday

[turbinetree]

Source: Reuters

Business News
March 4, 2019 / 2:09 PM / Updated 2 hours ago

(Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Monday it expects to end production of the Chevrolet Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant on Wednesday, the first of five plants it is idling this year in North America.

A GM spokesman said the company is “ahead of the production schedule” and added that production had been scheduled to end Friday “but now it looks like it will finish up Cruze production on Wednesday.”

Last week, the United Auto Workers union sued GM over its decision to end production and eliminate thousands of jobs U.S. auto plants, saying it violated a 2015 collective bargaining agreement.

The UAW has asked a federal judge to order GM to rescind its November decision to close three plants in Michigan, Ohio and Maryland, and award damages to employees for losses from what the UAW calls GM’s breach of contract.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-outlook/gm-set-to-end-production-at-ohio-plant-wednesday-idUSKCN1QL1ZL

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With a right wing anti-labor courts, having been packed for years with anti-union judges towards the worker...............................and a company that got millions in tax write-offs, and heads in that corporation..................making millions.................maybe its time for employee ownership's in this country.........................with there own separate banks, instead of the wall street BS................

[sandensea]

1. The race to the bottom - of Mexico.

Damn NAFTA, and Old Man Bush and his narco sidekick Salinas for foisting this on us.

Plus, NAFTA is the reason we have Cheeto in the Oval Office now.

He knows how much people hate it (and rightfully so) and exploited that very effectively - but in bad faith, of course, since he never intended to really do anything about it.

I hope the good people of Lordstown - and Ohio in general - remember this next year.

[turbinetree]

2. He promised them that those plants would not close, in fact he said..................

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/contradicting-trumps-rhetoric-gm-announces-major-job-cuts


He really is a POS.........................and

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................

[sandensea]

3. It's Perot's 'giant sucking sound' alright

Between the two Bushes and Cheeto, it's a wonder we've made it thus far.

[turbinetree]

5. Everything that happens in this country reminds me of BREIXT

and if the public were to take this in that kind of context, they would be just outraged, on how the corruption from high just manifests what is happening, we see it happening, we see the laws being passed, and we are screaming at the top of our lungs not to do it, but they go ahead and do it anyway .................it is just amazing on the similarities unfolding in real time, and how the unchecked money in the back ground is taking down to two countries..............amazing

And your comment is spot on....................

[sandensea]

6. Thank you. Likewise!

We - and the British - need campaign finance reform STAT.

They want to buy politicians? Tell them to move to Colombia or Nigeria.

[Botany]

4. So much winning you get tired of winning so much .... D. Trump

The steel tariffs he put on made it much cheaper not to build in America

[UrbanProspector]

7. Lock them up

for tax evasion! GM received hundreds of millions in tax abatement's even while we bailed them out with loans. We should demand that they be made to repay ALL the original tax assessments and any tax refunds immediately! I live in South east Michigan and we have 2 plants due to close or decrease production within the next year. I wonder how many more will lose their jobs before they see the unbridled greed and cut-throat global capitalism leader that GM has become...hardly baseball and apple pie anymore except in China. I am scared about what effect all these job losses will have on the immediate local region. What will these people do in the new "big, beautiful economy" that were told were in? What will they make with their hands? What will the engineers engineer?. Better yet, who will have any money to buy their products if they don't have a job? There are only so many fast food places to put these ex-auto workers IMHO. They talk about re-training and education, but where will they work after the program? There are not enough employers who offer unskilled labor or entry-level jobs to handle the sudden influx of applicants. Even if there was such jobs there would become more of a glut of applicants then there currently is, thus causing a deflated wage state where people will work for anything.
So I say charge 'em back taxes and then take yer shitty, ugly, over-priced junk to China and let the free market tariffs speak louder!

[samplegirl]

8. We are sad here

It’s pretty much the last of good paying Union jobs.
What’s worse is knowing that trump came to the plant and blatantly lied to them for votes!

[liberal N proud]

9. That is trump country

Wonder how many still support him.

[JDC]

11. All of them I afraid.

Hope I'm wrong.

[denverbill]

10. I bought one of a Chevy Cruze the year they came out.

I was glad to support American workers and an American company.

My next car won't be a Chevy for sure.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. I have friends who work(ed) there.

Some here hold hope that it's a union busting strategy or a bluff to force early retirement of legacy workers. Personally, I find it hard to believe GM will walk away from a multi billion dollar plant like a slum duplex.

One point is that GM wants to contract almost everything out of union pay. Anyone who doesn't actually assemble the car, like floor sweeping, in plant parts delivery, and tool & die would be done at low wage by contract workers.