Manufacturing

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President Donald Trump stepped up his pressure on General Motors to reopen the Lordstown manufacturing plant that recently closed and put 1,700 people out…

Firestone Country Club, Goodyear Heights and the B.F. Goodrich smokestacks are among the many reminders that the rubber industry once dominated the eyes,…

The last Chevy Cruze rolled off the assembly line at the GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, Wednesday. Workers draped an American flag over the white, four-door sedan. Now, most of the more than 1,500 workers on the last remaining shift will be laid off.

It's down to the final days for the Chevy Cruze at the General Motors assembly plant in Lordstown. "The last Cruze is scheduled to roll off the production line Wednesday, said Dave Green, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112. "The plant's going to go on official unallocated status as of Friday." Despite little apparent progress getting a new product for Lordstown, Green remains hopeful that the union might be able to win a new lease of life for the plant during upcoming contract negotiations with the company.

General Motors will end production this week at the first of five North American plants it wants to close by early next year as part of a companywide…

Hundreds of workers at four General Motors plants slated to close by January are facing a painful choice: Take the company's offer to work at another…

President Trump told governors this week that automakers are returning to Ohio and other states, a false claim that he’s made several times before.Gov.…

Ohio's Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman says he welcomes a lawsuit filed by the United Auto Workers that accuses General Motors of breach of contract for closing several factories, including its Lordstown assembly plant. He said the impact of the planned closure is already rippling through the economy of the Mahoning Valley and making a bad situation worse.

The United Auto Workers has sued General Motors to stop the company from closing three plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland. According to the suit filed…