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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) When General Motors boldly announced its goal last month to make only battery-powered vehicles by 2035, it didn t just mark a break with more than a century of making internal combustion engines. It also clouded the future for 50,000 GM workers whose skills and jobs could become obsolete far sooner than they knew.
The message was clear: As a greener U.S. economy edges closer into view, GM wants a factory workforce that eventually will build only zero-emissions vehicles.
It won t happen overnight. But the likelihood is growing that legions of autoworkers who trained and worked for decades to build machines that run on petroleum will need to do rather different work in the next decade or they might not have jobs.
The likelihood is growing that legions of autoworkers who trained and worked for decades to build machines that run on petroleum will need to do rather
Autoworkers face uncertain future in an era of electric cars
Tom Krisher And John Seewer
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Stuart Hill, a United Auto Workers member who works at the General Motors Toledo Transmission Operations facility, poses in Toledo, Ohio, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. At 38 years old and a GM employee for five years, Hill is still decades from retirement. He wonders about the future of that plant and his role in it. Its something thats in the back of my mind, Hill said. Are they going to shut it down? (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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