President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will coincide with 2,000 employees of General Motors losing their jobs, CNN Money reported.
Despite announcing plans Tuesday to invest $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing, 1,200 workers in Lordstown, Ohio, and 800 Lansing, Mich., will be terminated in the company’s first layoffs in over half a decade.
“Please help us in Lordstown,” Robert Sheridan, a 40-year-old GM worker and father of three, told CNN. “This is a great middle-class job. You can’t find one better around here.”
GM pays more than twice as much as other factories in the area, at $25 an hour for Sheridan’s job installing brake lines, compared to $9 or $12 elsewhere nearby.
Trump criticized GM earlier this month in a tweet about the carmaker’s production in Mexico.
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