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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.

smackaholic wrote:And some will find other decent jobs, now that the economy actually is doing well.

Kierland wrote:So shutting plants and firing 10s of thousands of people is a good thing. You are an idiot.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

smackaholic wrote:And some will find other decent jobs, now that the economy actually is doing well.

Yes, there are plenty of $12-18 hour jobs now available in Trump's economy. Moron.

Kierland wrote:So shutting plants and firing 10s of thousands of people is a good thing. You are an idiot.

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Very disappointed with General Motors and their CEO, Mary Barra, for closing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland. Nothing being closed in Mexico & China. The U.S. saved General Motors, and this is the THANKS we get! We are now looking at cutting all @GM subsidies, including....

Screw_Michigan wrote: Too bad Chevy is killing the Cruze. Nice car.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

smackaholic wrote:And some will find other decent jobs, now that the economy actually is doing well.

Yes, there are plenty of $12-18 hour jobs now available in Trump's economy. Moron.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

smackaholic wrote:And some will find other decent jobs, now that the economy actually is doing well.

Yes, there are plenty of $12-18 hour jobs now available in Trump's economy. Moron.

L45B wrote:

Kierland wrote:So shutting plants and firing 10s of thousands of people is a good thing. You are an idiot.

How about you either post a pic of your Chevy or shut the fuck up?

Joe in PB wrote:Yawn, the electric car business is waning because they are commuter transportation that have reduced range as time goes on, they're expensive, and possible customers pretty much already own an electric automobile.

As for GM dropping other models, Ford has done the same. If models aren't selling, then it doesn't make sense to keep making them.

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General Motors is cutting 14,000 jobs and focusing on self-driving and electric vehicles
“Resources allocated to electric and autonomous vehicle programs will double in the next two years.”

GM’s shuttering of plants is also a step toward its new focus on producing electric and autonomous vehicles; its new motto is “Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, Zero Congestion.” In 2017, the company bought Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based driverless car company. According to a press release, “resources allocated to electric and autonomous vehicle programs will double in the next two years.”

Sirfindafold wrote:

Screw_Michigan wrote: Too bad Chevy is killing the Cruze. Nice car.

I wouldn't take one as a gift.

smackaholic wrote:Americans like station wagons

Killian wrote:

Screw_Michigan wrote:

smackaholic wrote:And some will find other decent jobs, now that the economy actually is doing well.

Yes, there are plenty of $12-18 hour jobs now available in Trump's economy. Moron.

Yes, there are. They may not be where you live and require you to move, but there are thousands of jobs going unfilled that pay much more than $12-18/hr that require little to no experience.

Mikey wrote:Absolutely.

It’s just a little ironic that, through his trade policies, Trump may inadvertently be speeding up the decline of fossil fuel powered transportation. You want to see oil prices really drop? Just start taking internal combustion engines off the roads.

Derron wrote: Talked to a friend who is a GC in the PDX metro area and he is trying to hire CDL dump truck drivers for $ 30 an hour, medical and 401, plus profit sharing. He is getting a few good applicants and a bunch of morons too.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Mikey wrote:Absolutely.

It’s just a little ironic that, through his trade policies, Trump may inadvertently be speeding up the decline of fossil fuel powered transportation. You want to see oil prices really drop? Just start taking internal combustion engines off the roads.

Get out of here with your common sense.

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Derron wrote: Talked to a friend who is a GC in the PDX metro area and he is trying to hire CDL dump truck drivers for $ 30 an hour, medical and 401, plus profit sharing. He is getting a few good applicants and a bunch of morons too.

Why don't you post a link, friend, instead of serenading us with your anecdotal evidence?

Derron wrote: Why don't you answer the question I posed to you up in the thread about who should take those $ 12 to $ 18 an hour jobs that are begging for workers ??

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Derron wrote: Why don't you answer the question I posed to you up in the thread about who should take those $ 12 to $ 18 an hour jobs that are begging for workers ??

I guess laid off GM workers should. I bet they can pay mortgages and support families with these jobs, and they should totally uproot their families to pump gas in meth-town Oregon, right?

Post that link already, douchebag.