Ohio Congresswomen Marcy Kaptur and Joyce Beatty invite President Trump to visit GM automobile plants slated to close in Ohio and elsewhere, Kaptur, the longest serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and whose 9th congressional district extends to parts of Cleveland, leading several of her congressional colleagues, including Beatty and Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, in a letter to the president.....Rep. Beatty, of Columbus, is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio....GM says it might reconsider its plans to close the Lordstown GM plant in Ohio, which U.S. senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown also want to remain open, but that its slated automobile plant in Detroit will surely be closed....GM has slated four U.S. automobile plants, including the one in Lordstown, Ohio, and one plant in Canada, for closing....Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog
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| Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (left), a Toledo Democrat whose 9th congressional district extends to parts of Cleveland, and Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty, a Columbus Democrat and one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio |
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a Toledo Democrat whose 9th congressional district extends to Cleveland and the dean of the Ohio Delegation, today sent a letter with four colleagues to President Donald Trump formally asking the president to visit the communities impacted by General Motors' decision to close four U.S. plants and one in Canada, including the Lordstown Assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
The letter comes after Kaptur, joined by several of her colleagues, held a press conference on Nov. 29 and issued a call for immediate action from President Trump.
The automaker announced earlier and again last month that the company plans to leave transmission plants in Warren and White Marsh, Maryland, and assembly plants in Detroit, Ontario and Ohio “unallocated in 2019.”
Some 14,000 GM workers will either be displaced or will lose their jobs relative to the plant closings, which GM says is part of its global restructuring initiative.
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| Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan |
Kaptur's letter was also signed by Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI-12), Rep. Tim Ryan (OH-13), a Niles Democrat, Rep. Joyce Beatty (OH-03), a Columbus Democrat and one of two Black women in congress from Ohio, and Rep.-Elect Andy Levin (MI-09).
"Respectfully, we invite you [President Trump] to join us to visit the Lordstown Assembly, Warren Transmission, Brownstown Battery, Baltimore Operations and Detroit-Hamtramck plants, to meet the workers who will soon receive pink slips," Kaptur and her colleagues said in the letter. "This idling will impact over 14,000 workers, including the layoff of 3,300 production workers in the United States and 2,500 in Canada, and another 8,000 salaried employees."
The congresswoman continued.
"We urge your [President Trump] administration's intervention in every manner possible to seek both short and long term remedies for these workers, the auto-part supplies that will also be impacted, and the communities sure to be severely impacted by these job losses," the congresswoman said.
U. S. Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, both of Ohio, and Brown, specifically a Cleveland Democrat, have fought against closing the Lordstown Assembly plant, which is comprised of the vehicle assembly, metal center and paint shop.
Lordstown is a village in Northeast Ohio and Trumbull County.
It is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metropolitan statistical area
The GM plant in Lordstown is now the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman MSA's largest industrial employer with approximately 4,500 employees, which exceeds, by roughly a thousand people, the population of the village itself of about 3,500 people.
GM officials said they might reconsider plans to close the Lordstown plant but that Detroit is surely to be closed.
The longest serving woman in the United States House of Representatives, Kaptur went on to say in the letter to the president that "our communities need deliverance on your promises to invest in and restore America's manufacturing might and to put an end to the outsourcing of American jobs."
Kaptur's letter concluded with "we will work with you and your administration to reinvest and modernize American auto manufacturing. Thank you for your review of this urgent request."
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