1,334 GM Employees Laid Off Via Ohio State Paperwork Filing
Ohio factory workers received bad news this week. General Motors is laying off 1,334 employees in Lordstown. The automaker also admits that hundreds of those workers will not return.
The news comes from documents filed with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. General Motors and LG Energy Solution jointly operate the Ultium Cells plant in Lordstown, which builds EV batteries. With GM’s EV sales slumping, the company already laid off 700 workers at its Tennessee battery plant. It also shut down its Factory Zero EV plant in Detroit for a month. Factory Zero has since reopened, but it now runs only one shift.
What the Lordstown layoffs include
The Lordstown layoffs affect 1,090 battery assembly operators, 142 quality operators, and 102 material operators.
GM says it is laying off workers as it upgrades the facility to make it more flexible for future production. That raises questions about what the plant may build next. Could it pivot to home energy storage, similar to Ford? That remains unclear.
What GM has confirmed is that it expects 850 of the layoffs to be temporary.
