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No one knows better than residents of this Mahoning Valley about picking ourselves up after being knocked down.
We all remember that dark day, Sept. 19, 1977, when thousands of steelworkers lost their jobs with the shuttering of Youngstown Sheet & Tube’s Campbell Works, following by a domino effect of other area steel mills.
Our region survived and rebuilt, ultimately turning our manufacturing focus to automaking.
Another big blow came with the 2005 loss of nearly 5,000 Warren-based Delphi Packard Electric hourly and salaried jobs after the nation’s largest auto parts supplier declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Then, General Motors, which just a few years ago employed more than 4,500 workers here, eliminated shifts and eventually announced it would close its local complex in March 2019 after sales of the Chevrolet Cruze declined and the Detroit automaker determined the future of the industry no longer was in small cars but in larger vehicles like trucks and SUVs and in elec
The Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber will give its Spirit of the Valley Award to General Motors at its annual meeting Wednesday a decision upsetting a number of those who lost their jobs or relocated when the company closed its Lordstown plant.
The timing of the award is bad a little more than two years to the day, March 6, 2019 that the last Chevrolet Cruze rolled off the production line at the assembly plant.
The closure was a devastating blow to the region with about 1,500 jobs lost that day. The plant had employed about three times that amount about five years earlier.
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Staff file photo // R. Michael Semple .
United Auto Workers Local 1112 members and supporters of GM Lordstown workers block the Lordstown auto facilityâs Bailey Road entrance for a moment during the last day of production of the Chevrolet Cruze and the idling of the plant on March 6, 2019. The Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber gave General Motors its Spirit of the Valley Award, which former UAW Local 1112 president Dave Green said was a smack in the face.
File photo / R. Michael Semple
UAW Local 1112 members hold hands March 7, 2019, as a helicopter circles the union hall in Jackson Township. From left are Darren Bodak of Struthers, Joe Nuzzi and his wife Jennifer of Boardman (both GM Lordstown workers) and Mike Sullivan of Lordstown.
The last of 14,000 or so structural steel beams is lowered into place in February at the $2.3 billion Ultium Cells LLC facility in Lordstown. General Motors, a 50 percent investor in the plant, is being recognized by the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber for the investment, but the award is raising the eyebrows of some union members and former assembly plant workers.
Provided photo / Roger Mastroianni for General Motors
LORDSTOWN Giving General Motors an award for the impact it’s made in the community is “like a smack in the face” to the former workers and their families displaced when the automaker closed its Lordstown assembly plant, its former union leader said.