Laid off GM Lordstown workers react to Workhorse Announcement

GMs are saying that they're going to have GM leave the job.

After 18 years at the plant, and weeks after it went idle, Tom Davis is one of those trainers trying to make sense of a lot of things – not just for himself, but for his wife and two kids.

We're going to have a lot of questions about GM's workhorse.

"We have been told since the beginning that they can not do anything like this," Davis said. "They've already been contracted I was surprised."
The international UAW has already pointed out that it is not interested, and wants to go to the Lordstown facility.
Davis believes UAW Local 1112 will take that same position, but does not know how to make it work.

"It seems like General Motors is trying to keep its hands on General Motors workers," says Davis. "It seems like they've got together with this smaller company that's making electric vehicles and call it something else."

Jeff Kotel, who worked at the Lordstown plant for more than 20 years, agrees.
He called Wednesday's announcement "unexpected".

"We're giving up 400 jobs, what are they going to do, what's going on?" Kotel said. "What's the pay going to be?

More uncertainty at a time when families like the Kotels and the Davises are clinging to any answers they can find.