The move comes days after Mr. Trump publicly ratcheted up pressure on the nation’s largest auto maker. Of those, just 6,000 were factory workers—the type of jobs Mr. Trump typically references in his comments on trade—and the rest were engineering, information technology and other white-collar jobs. “There is a bigger story here that relates to employment in the United States,” Mr. Glidden said. Ford on Jan. 3 said it scrapped plans for a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico that had been the subject of frequent criticism from Mr. Trump. It’s unclear whether the investment GM plans to disclose this week eventually will include more work for the Lordstown facility.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 17, 2017 00:00 UTC