GM to bring back 1,200 jobs at northeast Ohio factory

LORDSTOWN — General Motors Corp. plans to bring 1,200 autoworkers back on the job this summer to begin producing the Chevrolet Cruze compact car.
About 400 of the jobs at the northeastern Ohio factory at Lordstown will go to laid-off GM workers in the region, and the rest will be open to GM employees across the country, the company said Tuesday, Feb. 23.
The jobs are to be added to a third assembly-line shift sometime in the third quarter.
The Cruze is due out later this year as GM’s newest entry in the growing market for small cars. The Lordstown factory, about 50 miles southeast of Cleveland, also makes the Chevrolet Cobalt small car.
Since July, GM has said it is restoring a total of 5,500 jobs at plants across the nation.
GM shut down its sport utility vehicle assembly plant in Moraine in December 2008. GM owns 60 percent of the DMAX truck engine plant in Moraine, a joint venture with Isuzu Motors Ltd.
DMAX employs about 550 people. The plant is shut down until April for retooling to produce a next-generation V-8 diesel engine for heavy-duty pickup trucks and full-size vans.
Source: The Associated Press