GM To Lay Off 1,600

Workers In Michigan, Delaware Will Be Out Of Work Indefinitely

(AP)  General Motors Corp. says it will lay off 1,600 workers at three factories in the coming months as the automaker keeps working to control its inventory amid a growing U.S. sales slump.

The indefinite layoffs affect 700 workers at GM's Pontiac pickup truck plant, spokesman Chris Lee said Thursday. Another 500 workers at the Detroit-Hamtramck car assembly plant, and 400 at a two-seat sports car assembly plant in Wilmington, Del., will also be out of work.

Workers were notified of the layoffs Sept. 29.

GM says it will reduce assembly line speeds at the Pontiac plant starting Feb. 1, and at Detroit-Hamtramck on Jan. 12. The Wilmington plant will see its two shifts cut to just one on Dec. 8.

[noloyalisti]

They should recall ALL the Bummer Hummers they tricked dumb Americans into buying. Their executives should have to give back their salaries and bonuses and start to sweat like the rest of us trying to make a mortgage payment and send their kids to college.

[BeyondGreen]

I feel very bad for the families affected by these closings. Seems American''s are losing jobs and homes at an alarming rate. I wonder when we will wake up and smell the coffee and work toward becoming a energy independent country. What short attention spans we have. When gas is scarce we conserve and look to produce, buy and drive energy effecient cars. When the oil is flowing cheap we forget, we have been there b efore. I am reading a newly releases book by Jeff Wilson called the Manhattan Project of 2009. It should be a required read for all members of our government.