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.
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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.
