Parma GM parts plant lays off about 100 workers

[AnOhioan]

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer

About 100 workers at a General Motors Corp. parts plant in Parma have been indefinitely laid off and hundreds more will be impacted by a temporary layoff in January, according to Dave Nedrich, a company spokesman.

After GM's traditional two-week holiday shutdown period ends on Jan. 5, about half of the Parma Metals Center will remain shut down for the following three weeks, Nedrich said. Before the layoff, around 1,500 people worked at the metal-working plant.

Those are the latest repercussions of sweeping production cuts announced this month by U.S. automakers as they wait for word from the White House on a federal rescue package. On Wednesday, Chrysler said it is closing all 30 of its manufacturing plants for the month of January, and Ford said it would shut down its assembly plants for an extra week.

General Motors announced last week that it would temporarily close 20 assembly factories, cutting 250,000 vehicles from its production schedule for the first quarter of 2009. Before that, the company cut a shift at its assembly plant in Lordstown, eliminating 2,000 jobs and announced said that the plant would also shut down in January.

Read more: http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/12/parma_gm_parts_plant_layoffs_a.html

[sarcasmo]

1. January is going to be UGLY.

[OhioChick]

2. Ohio can't handle much more. n/t