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GM’s Lordstown plant will lay off 35 workers

LORDSTOWN — Thirty-five workers at General Motors’ assembly plant in Lordstown are scheduled to be laid off at the end of the year.

Jim Graham, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, said the layoffs were expected because the workers were brought in on a temporary basis to fill in for other workers who were on vacation. The new workers were added when GM restored its second shift to the Lordstown plant in October, leaving crews with less than three months to get in all of their remaining vacation time.

FirstEnergy Corp. declares its quarterly dividend

AKRON — FirstEnergy Corp. declared an unchanged quarterly dividend of 55 cents per share of outstanding common stock. The dividend will be payable March 1 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 5.

At Severstal, some laid-off Steelworkers back on job

WHEELING, W.Va. — Steelworkers at a Severstal North America plant in Yorkville, Ohio, are back on the job in time to celebrate Christmas.

About 100 people at the cold-rolling mill are already working. United Steelworkers Local 1223 President Jerry Conners says more will arrive later this week when production begins. When the mill is back to full production, as many as 250 people could be back at work.

Severstal had laid off 1,900 employees in May and cut back production at its Follansbee coke plant.

Vindicator staff/wire reports