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The World Socialist Web Site reports [wsws.org]

Within days of announcing the elimination of an entire shift and 1,500 jobs at the giant Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant, General Motors announced that its subsidiary, known as the Lordstown GM Subsystems Manufacturing LLC, will be hiring low-paid temporary workers under an agreement the United Auto Workers signed behind the backs of rank-and-file workers.

[...]The company and the union, [said a GM Lordstown worker with 30 years seniority], were seeking to drive out the older, high-paid workers and create a workforce largely made up of low-paid temps.

[...]Since the UAW first initiated its campaign of "job-saving" concessions at Chrysler in 1979-80, more than one million jobs have been wiped out in the auto industry, including 90 percent of the North American jobs at GM, Ford, and Chrysler.

[...]This is part of an international job-cutting campaign by GM, which has shut plants in Europe and has halted production entirely in Russia, Australia, and India.

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