GM to cut jobs
General Motors Corp. will cut about 60 jobs at its Lansing Craft Centre because of cuts of production of the Chevrolet SSR roadster, a union official said.
The automaker is in the middle of a temporary shutdown at the plant through March 14 at the earliest.
When Lansing Craft Centre employees return to work from their Jan. 31 temporary layoff, they will produce 40 SSRs a day, down from 70 a day.
"The fact is that there are going to be some layoffs," Brian Fredline, president of UAW Local 1618, told the Lansing State Journal for a Monday report. "We won't know the exact number until we're up and running at the new line speed and we see how things go."
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