The Hill, By Michelle Krebs, March 8, 2019 — The final Chevrolet Cruze sedan rolled down the assembly line at General Motors’ Lordstown, Ohio, plant on Wednesday, putting 1,500 workers out of work or looking for transfers and leaving local officials scrambling for ways to re-open the plant.
Located midway between Cleveland, Ohio and Pittsburgh, Pa., the plant is the first of five GM assembly operations in North America scheduled to end production by the end of 2020.
Once employing some 3,000 workers, the Lordstown plant had experienced constant production cutbacks and employee layoffs in recent years due to slumping sales as consumers opted for sport-utility vehicles instead of traditional cars like the Chevrolet Cruze.
