Lordstown workers overwhelmingly OK contract changes

LIBERTY — With either a sigh of relief or a shrug of resignation, Lordstown workers supported contract concessions designed to help General Motors survive.

Local workers approved the contract revisions Thursday with 84 percent of the vote.

Jim Graham, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, said he was told by the union’s international representatives that Lordstown GM passed the revisions by the highest percentage in the country. “Our members did their job. I think it sends a message to Detroit that we are confident in our international, and we still believe strongly in General Motors.”

Calvanita Peals, 59, of Newton Falls, put it this way after voting Thursday at the Metroplex Hotel: “We have to do what we have to do.”

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