Layoffs likely at GM plant

Layoffs likely at GM plant

LORDSTOWN — A labor strike at a supplier may force General Motors’ Lordstown complex to cut production and lay off workers.

Workers could be laid off later this week or early next week, leaders of United Auto Workers Local 1112 said in a flier today.

The plant is running short of a brake spindle that is forged by American Axle, a Detroit-based supplier that was hit by a UAW strike Feb. 26. About 3,600 American Axle workers are off the job at plants in Michigan and New York in a contract dispute.

The flier doesn’t make it clear how much of the Lordstown complex could be shut down. Union officials could not be reached to comment.

Dan Flores, a GM spokesman, said he can’t comment on potential effects of the supplier strike.

So far, however, the strike has shut down GM plants that produce pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles and component plants that produce metal stampings and engines for those plants.

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