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Days After Election, General Motors Announces 2,000 Layoffs in Ohio and Michigan
Breitbart ^ | 11-10-16 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 11/11/2016 12:24:27 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins

The day after the 2016 election for president, General Motors announced it was laying off another 2,000 workers in plants in Ohio and Michigan, two states that gave President-elect Donald Trump a major victory on Tuesday.

GM said the layoffs will affect the third shifts in the plants in Lordstown, Ohio, and Lansing, Michigan, which build the low-selling cars sold under the Chevrolet and Cadillac brand names.

“The Lordstown plant builds the compact Chevrolet Cruze, whose U.S. sales through October were down 20%,” Fortune magazine reported. “The Lansing Grand River plant builds the Cadillac ATS and CTS, whose sales were down 17% through October.”

Earlier this year, General Motors informed investors and the car-buying public that it was increasing its presence in Mexico by investing upwards to $691 million to build new plants and expand current ones south of the border.

At the time, GM Mexico President Ernesto Hernandez celebrated the investment for what it will do for the Mexican economy.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/10/day-election-general-motors-announces-2000-layoffs-ohio-michigan/

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Michigan; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: automakers; generalmotors; globalwarminghoax; gm; lansing; layoffs; manufacturing; michigan; obamanation; ohio
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Get this to the Trump transition team ASAP!
1 posted on 11/11/2016 12:24:27 PM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

T-A-R-I-F-F.


2 posted on 11/11/2016 12:25:38 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

It will be interesting to see if and how Trump gets his Tariffs in place... way way way too many establishment republicans are sitting in seats that will fight this...

Public is going to have to rise up to make this happen, Trump can’t do this alone.


3 posted on 11/11/2016 12:26:28 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

Government Motors holds-off until after the news can’t hurt Hillary. Hmmmmm......


4 posted on 11/11/2016 12:26:40 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Wolfie

Traffis never have worked out and they never will


5 posted on 11/11/2016 12:28:57 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Re : Post #4 ~

“Government Motors holds-off until after the news can’t hurt Hillary. Hmmmmm......”

Good interpretation, I agree...


6 posted on 11/11/2016 12:29:16 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

A big reason Trump won was because of this kind of stuff. I hope he can rectify that somehow...if he can they will be red for a long long time...


7 posted on 11/11/2016 12:29:37 PM PST by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

These layoffs were coming for a while now.

Somebody convince these companies to wait until after the election.

I wonder why?


8 posted on 11/11/2016 12:31:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

the jobs will be brought back. bigly.


9 posted on 11/11/2016 12:31:16 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: BenLurkin

What happened to the bail out you and I paid for?

I want my money back Barky.


10 posted on 11/11/2016 12:34:25 PM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Let’s find out.


11 posted on 11/11/2016 12:34:30 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

I bet that most of the workers at those plants had an idea of what was coming, and a lot of them voted for Trump.


12 posted on 11/11/2016 12:34:37 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Jawboning works, and that’s what Trump is talking about under the guise of making his phone call to the company presidents. There are no (zip zero nada) barriers to taking jobs out of the country now other than the company’s own economics. The threat of tarriff or taxes will start to constrain those decisions, although in the case of GM, these cutbacks could well be in part a result of previous government meddling by Obama.


13 posted on 11/11/2016 12:35:24 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Wolfie

We already have


14 posted on 11/11/2016 12:35:45 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: StoneWall Brigade

When? Was it when Reagan put them in to save Harley Davidson?


15 posted on 11/11/2016 12:38:20 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

When the money starts returning maybe give the business to a new startup car company, it can be done ...


16 posted on 11/11/2016 12:38:54 PM PST by Scythian_Reborn
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To: HamiltonJay

Better than Tariffs would be to get domestic energy down so that the cost of production is let in the US...that fixes the problem long term.


17 posted on 11/11/2016 12:39:09 PM PST by The Klingon
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It will be interesting to see if and how Trump gets his Tariffs in place...

Cutting corporate tax rates can have an effect similar to that of tariffs but without the "trade war" issues.

18 posted on 11/11/2016 12:41:17 PM PST by fso301
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All the tax payer $ GM received went to its overseas operations.


19 posted on 11/11/2016 12:42:34 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

Chevrolet Cruze - can’t tell you how many of these I’ve seen on the side of the interstate being put on a flatbed.


20 posted on 11/11/2016 12:43:13 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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