GM has responded to a series of angry tweets from President Trump demanding that the automaker reopen or sell a plant it recently closed
New York GM responded late Sunday to a series of angry tweets from President Donald Trump demanding that the automaker reopen or sell a plant it recently closed because of shifting customer demand.
"To be clear, under the terms of the UAW-GM National Agreement, the ultimate future of the unallocated plants will be resolved between GM and the UAW," GM said in a statement, referring to the United Automobile Workers union.The automaker announced a major global restructuring in November, including the closure of four US plants and another in Canada. It said it would cut 8,000 salaried and contract jobs, representing a 15% reduction in its workforce.GM is gone.
— Donald J. Trump March 17, 2019 GM said in its statement Sunday that its main focus was offering employees jobs in other plants"where we have growth opportunities.""We have now placed over 1,000 employees from our unallocated plants to other GM locations, and we have opportunities available for virtually all impacted employees," it added.
— Donald J. Trump March 17, 2019 Brian Rothenberg, a spokesman for UAW International, said that the union's focus is on its members and that it"will leave no stone unturned in working to keep the plants open."Trump's GM tweets capped a day of presidential fuming on social media. In addition to GM, the president slammed Democrats and even Fox News anchors. He also called for Jeanine Pirro's return to Fox after the network suspended her.
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