General Motors is to lay off 1,500 hourly workers at plants in Michigan and Delaware after sales of the pickup trucks, large cars and two-seat roadsters they build slowed.
General Motors is to lay off 1,500 hourly workers at plants in Michigan and Delaware after sales of the pickup trucks, large cars and two-seat roadsters they build slowed.
GM spokesman Tony Sapienza told Reuters the factory workers had been told late in September the cuts would be necessary.
The layoffs include 700 workers at a Pontiac, Michigan, assembly plant plus 400 each at the Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan, and a factory in Wilmington, Delaware, Sapienza said.
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