Contract talks expected to resume at GM Lordstown car plant

LORDSTOWN — Talks on a new local labor contract at the Lordstown car assembly plant are expected to resume soon.

Leaders of United Auto Workers Local 1112 informed members in a flier this week that they are going to be setting up times for negotiations.

The talks are crucial to the future of the plant, which produces the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5. General Motors has told the UAW that it intends to bring a new model to the plant in 2009 and another in 2010. No official announcement is expected, however, until a labor contract is worked out.

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