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GM to cut 50 jobs

DETROIT

General Motors plans to cut 50 jobs at a suburban Detroit battery assembly plant tied to the Chevrolet Volt, Reuters reported Tuesday based on a filing GM made with the state of Michigan. GM announced last month it planned to stop producing the plug-in hybrid Volt. The automaker is also ending production of the Lordstown, Ohio-built Chevrolet Cruze and shuttering the Lordstown plant, along with four other plants in North America. The Brownstown Battery Plant has 116 employees; GM will cut 37 hourly jobs and 13 salaried jobs in February, Reuters reported.