Hope of coming back to shuttered GM plant fades for workers
Posted September 27, 2019 7:00 am
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - It's looking less likely that General Motors will be making vehicles again at the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant that shut down last winter.
Instead, GM wants to sell the plant to a fledgling electric vehicle maker and build a battery factory.
The plant's fate is playing out amid negotiations aimed at ending the nearly 2-week-old strike against GM by 49,000 employees.
Many of the workers from the Lordstown plant have taken jobs at other GM plants across the country but want to come back.
They were hoping that the automaker, facing pressure from President Donald Trump, would agree during contract talks to build a new vehicle at the plant.
FILE- In this Nov. 27, 2018, file photo a banner depicting the Chevrolet Cruze model vehicle is displayed at the General Motors' Lordstown plant in Lordstown, Ohio. Itâs looking less likely that General Motors will again make vehicles at an Ohio assembly plant that shut down last winter. Instead, GM wants to sell the plant just outside Youngstown to a fledgling electric vehicle maker and build an electric vehicle battery factory that likely would be run by a GM joint venture. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, right, shakes hands with GM Lordstown/United Auto Workers Local 1112 employee Keith Boytso as O'Rourke visits workers on strike on the picket line in Lordstown, Ohio. (R. Michael Semple/Tribune Chronicle via AP)
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