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December 20, 2007
The layoffs will begin on January 7, but union leaders say within a matter of months all of the laid off workers should be back on the job.
There are new details tonight about hundreds of GM workers in Toledo who will be laid off next month. The layoffs will begin on January 7, but union leaders say within a matter of months all of the laid off workers should be back on the job. As they ride out this tough time, union leaders are going full throttle after more work for the plant. Union leaders spent part of the day giving workers at the Toledo Powertrain plant more details about the plan to layoff hundreds of people.
On January 7, 150 workers will be laid off indefinitely, 400 others will be temporarily laid off. On January 28 the number of indefinite layoffs will increase to 350 and the temporary lay offs will be eliminated.
President of UAW Local 14 Ray Wood says, "By way of the UAW leadership, there is no such thing as a permanent lay off. You can only be laid off for 48 weeks in a four year period."
Because of that, Wood says he expects all the laid off workers to be back on the job in the coming months as the plant shifts gears from production of a four-speed transmission to a six-speed transmission. Auto industry experts expect a high demand for the new six-speed transmissions.
"We expect everyone to come back, some sooner than others."
Even as news of the layoffs hits, union leaders are aggressively pursuing new production lines for the Toledo plant, including work on the Corvette and a hybrid model.
"We are going after new products. We would like to have the workforce back up to 4,000 or 5,000, that's the union's expectation."
As we have been reporting for months, there is a $900 million expansion at the plant converting the production lines from 4-speed to 6-speed transmissions. These layoffs do not affect that investment
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