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March 11, 2008
About 1,100 of 1,880 hourly workers are on an unplanned holiday break at General Motors Corp.’s Toledo Powertrain plant after production was halted by a strike at a key GM supplier.
Workers were laid off yesterday and won’t return until a strike ends at supplier American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., said Wanda Montion, a spokesman at the Toledo plant. About 200 more workers than expected were kept on the job to prepare for the launch later this year of a new, more efficient style of transmission, the spokesman said.
Several hundred workers at GM’s Defiance powertrain foundry also were laid off yesterday because of the strike.
Laid off workers are eligible for state unemployment benefits and supplemental benefits from the UAW that will cover most of their take-home pay.
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