General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com)

General Motors plans to lay off 2,000 employees at two U.S. auto plants in early 2017, the automaker said on Wednesday. From a Reuters report:GM said it will furlough the employees when it cuts the third shift at its Lordstown, Ohio and Lansing, Michigan plants in mid-January. The Lordstown plant builds the compact Chevrolet Cruze, whose U.S. sales through October were down 20 percent. The Lansing Grand River plant builds the Cadillac ATS and CTS, whose sales were down 17 percent through October.An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a Washington Examiner report, "Trump has already criticized General Motors for reports that it would shift some production to Mexico, a plan that the company hasn't confirmed and didn't allude to Wednesday. The incoming Republican president also has said that he would impose a 35 percent tariff on the products of former U.S. subsidiaries that moved out of the country. When Ford announced the opening of a new factory in Mexico earlier this year, Trump called it an "absolute disgrace" and pledged to tax its imports to the U.S."

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Re:Short Lived - MAGA, despite the liberal shits.

[Anonymous Coward]

All the real manufacturing jobs got replaced with robots. There's nothing Trump can do to fix that. The dream of 9-5 in a factory tightening bolts all day for $20/hour is dead and gone and won't come back. But hey, blame it on Democrats. Simple answers are best, after all.

Re:Another of the same, then

[PopeRatzo]

Would that would be the same Lansing, Michigan where there hasn't even been a Republican CANDIDATE for mayor for the last twenty years or so, because only Democrats have any chance of getting elected? Yet another example of the great success that is Democrat rule?

I notice you failed to mention that Lordstown, Ohio has a Trump-supporting, Republican city council, a Republican congressman, a Republican senator and a Republican governor. Oh yeah, and Ohio is a "Right to Work" state.

And their plant is moving to Mexico, too. I notice you failed to mention that.

Re:Think About It...

[mark-t]

Ford isn't... but the poster to whom I was asking the question did not specify that he was referring to car companies, specifically, and just said "companies" in general. There are lots of companies that produce stuff in Canada, but are based in the USA. The film industry, most notably, is pretty big up here, but I'm not aware of any actually unfavorable work conditions that SJW's would oppose.