DETROIT -- The worsening U.S. auto sales slump claimed another 2,000 workers Friday as General Motors Corp. announced layoffs in Lordstown, Ohio, and at two other factories.
In Lordstown, where GM makes the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 small cars, 890 workers will go on indefinite layoff starting Feb. 2 when GM ends a third shift at the sprawling complex.
The cuts are in addition to 1,100 layoffs announced earlier this month. The plant is expected to stop production Dec. 23 and be down until Feb. 2.
Jim Graham, president of UAW Local 1112, said the assembly and fabricating plants, which employ about 4,800, will have 2,000 fewer workers in February.
"It seems like every time you wake up more good news hits you," Graham said.
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