Some union jobs at GM getting pay cuts

LORDSTOWN — The auto plant jobs that will receive a 50 percent pay cut have been identified.

The union at General Motors’ Lordstown assembly plant has been handed a non-negotiable list of jobs that will be paid about $14 an hour under a new national labor contract.

The jobs are in these departments: material movement, general stores, paint mix room, tire and wheel, engine dress, cockpit build and sub-assembly in the body shop, according to a flier issued by United Auto Workers Local 1112.

Officials from UAW and GM headquarters have been handing the same list to all plants in individual visits. A new labor contract says only workers who are directly connected to the assembly line will continue to receive top pay of $28 an hour.

Ben Strickland, Local 1112 shop chairman, said in the flier that the lower-paying jobs aren’t negotiable but he is meeting this week with senior UAW officials to resolve other issues.

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