General Motors Corp. and United Auto Workers officials in Lordstown, Ohio, are negotiating an agreement that could allow GM to buy out additional workers at an unprofitable assembly plant that builds small cars, a union official said Wednesday. UAW Local 1112 President Jim Graham, who represents a portion of the workers at the Lordstown manufacturing complex, said GM has presented a plan to UAW officials that would allow the auto maker to buy out workers in Ohio in an effort to make the plant profitable and secure a new product for the plant by 2009. He said the union found GM's initial buyout number unacceptable, but insisted the UAW will continue negotiating with GM.
See "UAW Official: GM eyeing further buyouts at Ohio plant", John D. Stoll, Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2007