This Nov. 27, 2018 file photo shows a mural displayed on a wall at General Motors' Lordstown plant in Lordstown, Ohio. TOLEDO, Ohio -- Hundreds of workers at four General Motors plants slated to close this year are facing a painful choice: Take the company's offer to work at another factory -- possibly hundreds of miles away -- even if that means leaving behind their families, their homes and everything they've built. Or stay and risk losing their high-paying jobs.
The automaker says the changes announced in November are needed to cut costs and put money into new vehicles. The plant closings still must be negotiated with the union, giving workers a sliver of hope.Anthony Sarigianopoulos has put in 25 years at GM's plant in Lordstown, Ohio, where the last Chevrolet Cruze will roll off the assembly line sometime later this month.
But he also doesn't want to move and miss out on ballgames and school concerts, knowing that his boys will be almost out of high school by the time he retires. So the 42-year-old team leader at the plant volunteered to leave the Youngstown area for a new job in Indiana, allowing her to stay closer to home instead of being shipped to a plant in Tennessee or Texas.Repasky has been working for just over a month at GM's truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she shares an apartment with a friend who also transferred there.
The students know they will be saying goodbye to some of their classmates in a few months. That includes three out of the 18 in her class.She and her husband, who has worked on the GM assembly line 17 years, talk almost every night about what to do next. "We're uprooting our entire lives right now because we don't have any answers," she said. "We know that no matter happens we will have to follow GM."Nearly two decades after founding the New Beginnings Outreach Ministries in Youngstown, Ohio, Melvin Trent stood before about 150 members of his church in early February and told them he was leaving."You could hear people crying throughout the congregation.
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