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Job services officials to be at GM Lordstown

LORDSTOWN — The Ohio Job & Family Services will meet with workers at General Motors’ Lordstown complex today and Thursday about services it provides to displaced workers. Nearly 2,000 Lordstown workers are going to be laid off as the complex cuts back on production.

Agency officials will meet with assembly plant workers today at the United Auto Workers Local 1112 union hall. The schedule is as follows: 7:30 a.m., third shift; 1 p.m., second shift; and 3:30 p.m., first shift.

Meetings will be at 7 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday for fabricating plant workers at the UAW Local 1714 union hall.

Group organizes walk to back loans for automakers

LORDSTOWN — A walk to support loans for the Detroit automakers will be at noon today, beginning at the west gate to the General Motors complex in Lordstown on Bailey Road.

The Vigil and Walk for Economic Justice is being coordinated by the New Deal Ignition Coalition and the Northeast Ohio office of the American Friends Service Committee. It is today because it’s Human Rights Day.

The organizing groups said prayers of thanksgiving and petitions for economic justice will be offered, along with calls to rebuild the American auto industry, restore jobs at Lordstown, restructure financial institutions and reform housing and banking.

Vindicator staff reports