GM Layoffs Likely To Affect Single-Parent Homes More Than Usual
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Last week, General Motors announced a slew of restructuring changes that don’t bode well for current employees in the U.S. and Canada. The restructuring, a $6 billion endeavor, calls for layoffs, plant closures, and ending the production of six models—Cadillac CT6, Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Volt, and Buick LaCrosse. The proposed GM layoffs are the saddest news, though. Employees were surprised by GM’s announcement last week as the automaker gave employees no notice about the news. While layoffs are always devastating, single-parent households will feel the brunt, especially in Detroit where nearly 72 percent of households have just one parent, according to the Detroit Free Press. That could mean the closure of the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant could affect an already vulnerable demographic more than usual.
The news should come as no surprise. Over the years there’s been a rise in single-parent households, and with only one income, sustaining a family becomes difficult when the breadwinner has no job. Peggy Jones, a UAW representative at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, is raising her five teenage grandchildren on just one income. She’s also concerned about other single parents who work at the factory.
“At the age I am now, it would be very hard to find another job doing as well as I am now,” Jones told the Freep. “It would be really tough for the kids.”
It doesn’t help that 31 percent of single-parent homes with children far below the poverty threshold. Single parents also have a tougher time finding employment—8.6 percent of single parents are unemployed. If the proposed GM layoffs go through, there could be a snowballing effect throughout the automotive industry, according to Timothy Hodge, assistant professor of economics at Oakland University, who spoke with the Detroit publication.
Right now, General Motors is only proposing the layoffs and plant closures. Many of the details need to be hammered out with the United Auto Works union, which won’t take kindly to being blindsided by the announcement. If anything, the next year will be full of fear and anxiety for many who work at the four U.S. factories slated for closure. If/when the GM layoffs come, they’re likely to decimate communities and households—it’ll affect some quicker than others.
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Great job Mary!
I am glad President Trump summoned her/ her aides to the White House. GM is imploding under her control…just look at dropping sales globally, profit down, quality down, and most importantly American workers out of jobs and their family’s Christmas plans ruined when they (American taxpayer) are the ones that saved GM from oblivion (and Miss Marry’s inflated salary to boot).
Miss Marry Barra is a typical Liberal hypocrite. Do you know how many single-parent families were destroyed by Mary?
And then she wonders why Michigan and many other hard-working union worker States voted our dear President in…We finally have a President that is looking after us when all the big government CEO types won’t.
Single parent families have nothing to do with GM.
These are people’s personal lives and are the results of their own actions, luck and choices.
It is sad when anyone loses a job but on the other hand it often leads to bigger and better things.
I lost my job to a lay off. It was the first time in my lif since I was 12 was with out a job. I had just got married and bought a house. I felt bad for myself for a week then went out to find a new job. A week later in a bad job market I had 4 good offers
Today I am starting 25 years at a job and company I would never have gone to without a lay off at my last job.
The job market is pretty good right now as ms y companies are unable to fill jobs. Yes it may mean a short term cut but it also mean much opportunity too.
There is a company here locally willing to take people in to teach them at $15 an hour. If you complete the training the wages increase significantly. Yet they have trouble getting people to apply or pass the drug test.
Hi Scott:)
Where is here? What type of work?
Thank you
Try doing it when you are a 59yo White male who may be one of the salaried cuts. Most companies won’t even even spend 10 seconds looking at your resume no matter how qualified you are.
$15 an hour is quote a comedown from people used to making two or three times as much.
Hi again Scott3 .. gonna go out on a limb here
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I would appreciate info on that job, if you’re willing to share. Write like I know it’s you lol
Thank you 🙂
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