Too bad Chevy is killing the Cruze. Nice car.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/busin ... /38606867/
General Motors Co.'s restructuring efforts in 2019 will hit the Detroit automaker's backyard, with two of five plants to be idled in Metro Detroit, a third in Ohio and layoffs for nearly 6,000 salaried workers in North America.
The idled plants and buyouts and layoffs among salaried workers will affect 14,300 jobs across the company.
That's not sitting well with President Donald Trump, whose bid for the White House was propelled by voters in the industrial heartland. He said Monday he believes GM's decision "has nothing to do with tariffs" imposed by his administration on China and the European Union.
The plants that will cease production next year are Detroit-Hamtramck, Warren Transmission, Lordstown Assembly in Ohio, Oshawa Assembly in Ontario and Baltimore Operations in Maryland. Work will stop, but plants will not officially close. The future of those facilities will be determined during 2019 negotiations with the United Auto Workers.
GM also will lay off nearly 6,000 salaried workers next year after a buyout program last month only had 2,250 takers, according to a memo sent to employees by CEO Mary Barra and obtained by The Detroit News. The salaried buyouts and the layoffs together will affect 8,000 North American employees and a number of global executives, none of whom are part of the senior leadership team.
The idling of five plants will affect some 6,300 workers globally, including 3,300 in the U.S. GM will indefinitely lay off these workers, who will be given the opportunity to transfer to GM's growth plants. All five of the affected plants are considered "unallocated," which means that at this time these plants don't have a product.
This latest restructuring move by GM — which the automaker says will save the company $6 billion by 2020 — comes as the automotive industry faces rising commodity costs due to tariffs and uncertainty surrounding the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade with China.
Trump said he and GM CEO Mary Barra spoke Sunday to discuss the automaker's plans. “Well, we don’t like it,” he said before he departing for a campaign trip to Mississippi. “I believe they’ll be opening up something else. I was very tough. I spoke to her when I heard they were closing and I said this country has done a lot for General Motors, you better get back in there soon. That’s Ohio and you better get back in there soon. So we have a lot of pressure on them.”
GM says it "remains committed to manufacturing in Ohio." The automaker says it employs 4,000 workers in the state in addition to the Lordstown plant. GM has operations in Defiance, Moraine, Parma, Toledo, Warren and West Chester.
