GM will take transfers from Delphi Packard

WARREN — General Motors is taking at least 118 workers from local Delphi Packard Electric plants.

The Lordstown assembly plant will take 94 of those workers. The rest are going to various GM plants around the country.

The transfers should eliminate Packard’s plans to lay off workers for the third time in seven months, said Mike O’Donnell, shop chairman of Local 717 of the International Union of Electrical Workers. He said he expected up to 100 people to be laid off soon because of declining production volumes.

He also said the transfers should allow for some workers who were laid off in April to be called back.

The transfers are being made under a labor agreement reached last year by GM, Delphi and their unions. Delphi used to be a part of GM, and the automaker has been helping to fund Delphi’s reorganization in bankruptcy court.

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