“At 47, I’m too old to go back to school.”[When GM closes a plant, workers lose their jobs. Losing jobs overseas is a particularly sore point here since a GM factory in Mexico also started making the Cruze. His trucking school did training drives on the road in front of the GM Lordstown plant. The answers are almost always the same: People want another factory job right away that is close by and pays over $15 an hour. If she says no, she would only be able to work at GM Lordstown — a gamble.

Source: Washington Post March 06, 2019 00:38 UTC