NEW YORK | General Motors Corp. said Monday it will cut shifts at plants in Ohio and Louisiana, eliminating 1,760 jobs, as part of the automaker's previously announced plan to reduce vehicle production due to weak demand for trucks and sport utility vehicles.
GM spokesman Tony Sapienza said the Detroit automaker will eliminate one shift each at its Moraine, Ohio, SUV plant and Shreveport, La., truck plant, cutting production by about 117,000 vehicles.
The Moraine plant will eliminate the second shift effective Sept. 29, affecting 1,000 of the plant's more than 2,000 hourly and salaried workers, GM said. At Shreveport, which employs nearly 2,000 people, about 760 will lose their jobs, Sapienza said.
The cuts bring GM's truck and SUV production cuts to just under the 300,000 units company officials had hoped for this year, Sapienza said.
