A tentative deal between General Motors and the United Auto Workers doesn’t include a full agreement on bringing manufacturing back to Lordstown, Ohio, a city that’s ꦛbeen a focus of both the union and President Trump, The Post has learned.
The UAW and GM have decided to table negotiations over returning jobs to a recently shuttered plant that had produced the Chevy Cruze to prevent the 31-day strike from being prolonged anꦕy more, according to two sources briefed on the deal.
“As soon as we get a little breathing room, we’re going to resume th🐟e Lordstown vision,” one person familiar with the negotiations told The Post.
Trump made the plant a national issue earlier this year when he took to Twitter to deman💃d GM CEO Mary Barra reopen it.
“Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant,” T⛎rump wrote on March 17. “I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING. I asked her to seꦜll it or do something quickly.”
“She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want i♊t open!” he wrꦍote.
The automaker announced the plant’s closing in November 2018, along with four others in the US and Canada, in order to save the company $6 billion by the end of 2020. GM’s plan was to take that money and invest in electric vehicles, which it expected to make uܫp 75 %of its total sales by the end of the next decade.
The L༺ordstown plant employed 1,400 workers before it closed in March.
UAW negotiators h♉ave been pushing GM to bring up manufacturing from Mexico of cars with combustion𓄧 engines, rather than electric vehicles, since they require more workers to assemble, according to a person familiar.
A spokesman for GM declined to comment.