Article published September 14, 2007
GM Lordstown plant makes strike preparations
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND - Workers at a northeast Ohio General Motors plant hoping the company will grant the site a new car model after 2009 made preparations Friday to strike to support national United Auto Workers contract talks with the auto industry.
"We are preparing ourselves for a strike tonight in the event things don't work out up in Detroit," said Jim Graham, president of UAW Local 1112 at GM Lordstown. "We are already set. Everything's in motion for a strike deadline tonight at 12 o'clock, and we will do what the international tells us to do, and the region. We're ready."
The UAW represents about 2,400 workers at the GM assembly plant in Lordstown, about 1,200 at an adjacent fabricating plant and about 500 in various nearby feeder plants, he said. Local 1112 covers the assembly workers.
"We're not making any more comments until we find out what's happening," Graham said.
Lordstown union leaders separately have been negotiating local issues at the plant with management and hoping that union bargainers in Detroit can win the plant a commitment from GM regarding a new car model.
The GM Lordstown products are the Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 small cars, but those are expected go out of production after the 2009 model year.
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