1,900 Ohio GM Workers Face 1-Week Layoffs

Monday, February 16th, 2009

(TOLEDO, Ohio) - General Motors Corp. says about 1,900 workers at two power-train plants in northwest Ohio will be temporarily laid off this month as the company tries to align production with weak demand. A GM spokesperson says 100 employees at the engine and transmission parts plant in Defiance will be laid off for a week beginning Monday. She says 1,200 other workers at the factory 50 miles southwest of Toledo will be laid off for the week beginning February 23rd. Also during that week, about 600 workers at the car company's Toledo power-train plant will be on layoff. Ohio is second in auto production behind Michigan and has been reeling from industry cutbacks. Last month, GM announced plans to eliminate a shift at its Lordstown complex in northeast Ohio, affecting 800 workers.

Well hell they should just dig a big hole and bury that state with the way things are there that sucks.

Folks better start converting back to the old ways quick or they will be starving.