Heart-wrenching photos show General Motors workers wiping tears away after the company laid more than 14,000 people off without warning and just before the holidays.
In a massive restructuring, the auto giant announced Monday that it will cut 15 per cent of its workforce to save $6billion and adapt to 'changing market conditions'.
'You're going right into Christmas. You're looking for celebration and that's not there now,' on GM worker told Today.
Another employee said through tears: 'I'm just kind of hurting right now.'
One worker spoke of a workplace where people 'were bawling their eyes out'.
The moves include shuttering seven plants worldwide as the company responds to changing customer preferences and focuses on popular trucks and SUVs and increasingly on electric models.
The job cuts from GM's current 180,000-strong work force will be particularly stinging in politically crucial areas of Ohio and Michigan, a region President Donald Trump has promised to revive.
Workers at the Ontario plant staged a wildcat strike to protest the closure.
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Heart-wrenching photos show General Motors workers (pictured, in Canada) wiping tears away after the company laid more than 14,000 people off without warning and just before the holidays
In a massive restructuring, the auto giant announced Monday that it will cut 15 per cent of its workforce to save $6billion and adapt to 'changing market conditions'
The moves include shuttering seven plants worldwide as the company responds to changing customer preferences and focuses on popular trucks and SUVs and increasingly on electric models
The job cuts from GM's current 180,000-strong work force will be particularly stinging in politically crucial areas
Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, the Canadian labor union, said he 'will vigorously fight again to maintain these good-paying auto jobs'.
Huston-Rough said the job cuts will be accomplished through 'a combination of retirements, layoffs and work relocations'.
The job cuts will include a 25 per cent reduction in executive-level employees to 'streamline decision making,' the company said.
According to reports, the five North American plants concerned employ nearly 7,000, including 3,000 workers in the Ontario plant.
One woman said that she worries for 'all of the people who have put in so many years of their lives and they don't know what's going to happen tomorrow'.
As workers continue to demand answers from GM, the company's CEO, Mary Barra, said in a statement: 'The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future.
'We recognize the need to stay in front of changing market conditions and customer preferences to position our company for long-term success.'
One employee (pictured) said through tears: 'I'm just kind of hurting right now'
Another worker spoke of a workplace where people 'were bawling their eyes out' and some walked out after hearing the news
Trump expressed dismay at the plan and said he was 'very tough' with Barra when they discussed the reorganization.
'I spoke with her when I heard they were closing and I said, "You know, this country has done a lot for General Motors. You better get back in there soon,"' he told reporters at the White House. 'They better put something else in.'
Barra also met at the White House with Trump's senior economic adviser Larry Kudlow, in what officials said was a previously scheduled meeting.
Trump's aggressive trade policies have been aimed specifically at saving manufacturing jobs, including the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which took aim at rules governing auto trade to favor the US industry.
Still, GM will shutter three North American auto assembly plants next year: the Oshawa plant in Ontario, Canada; Hamtramck in Detroit, Michigan and Lordstown in Warren, Ohio.
In addition, GM will close two US propulsion plants -- which produce batteries and transmissions -- in Baltimore, Maryland, and Warren, Michigan, as well two unidentified plants outside of North America.
Workers (pictured) at the Ontario plant staged a wildcat strike to protest the closure
Jerry Dias, president of Unifor, the Canadian labor union, said he 'will vigorously fight again to maintain these good-paying auto jobs'. GM employees staged a wildcat strike on Monday
The company already had announced plans to cease operations at its Gunsan, South Korea plant.
While the company said in its quarterly earnings late last month that it saw costs jump by $400million due to Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum, a spokeswoman said the latest decisions 'are not related to any recent trade or tariff decisions'.
The president threatened to punish GM following the company's decision.
'Very disappointed with General Motors and their CEO, Mary Barra, for closing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland. Nothing being closed in Mexico & China,' Trump tweeted Tuesday while a televised White House press briefing was going on.
'The U.S. saved General Motors, and this is the THANKS we get! We are now looking at cutting all @GM subsidies, including.... for electric cars,' he continued.
Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, lambasted GM's move as 'corporate greed at its worst' and also took a swipe at the 2017 tax cut favored by Trump which was touted as a jobs winner.
'The company reaped a massive tax break from last year's GOP tax bill and failed to invest that money in American jobs,' Brown said on Twitter.
In Canada, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau expressed 'deep disappointment' with the plant closure.
The job cuts from GM's current work force will be particularly stinging in politically crucial areas of Ohio and Michigan, a region President Donald Trump has promised to revive
Wall Street cheered the actions, while US and Canadian leaders expressed outrage.
GM shares jumped after the announcement, closing up 4.8 per cent on the day. Analysts were generally upbeat about the news.
'In contrast to times past, General Motors under CEO Mary Barra is trying to get ahead of a potential crisis by making cuts now,' Michelle Krebs of Autotrader said in a client note.
While GM has been increasing its focus on highly popular trucks and SUVs, the company said it would also prioritize investment in 'next-generation battery-electric architectures.'
In an investor call, Barra said some GM cars would no longer be available in North America, including the Chevrolet Cruze.
The closures also drew sharp criticism from the US and Canadian labor union representing GM workers, which accused the company of shifting production overseas at the expense of North American workers.
UAW, the autoworkers union, blasted GM's decision, saying the company was just looking for cheaper workers, and vowed to fight back.
'This callous decision by GM to reduce or cease operations in American plants, while opening or increasing production in Mexico and China plants for sales to American consumers, is, in its implementation, profoundly damaging to our American workforce,' said UAW vice president Terry Dittes.
China has become an increasingly important market for the automaker and in the first nine months of 2018, it sold 2.7 million cars in China compared to 2.6 million in all of North America.
However, spokeswoman Julie Huston-Rough denied the charge, telling AFP that 'these products will not be manufactured in other locations for the North American market.'
She also said the company remains committed to its facilities in Ohio, despite the closure of the Lordstown plant, with six other locations and 4,000 employees, as well has hundreds of suppliers and dealers.
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