General Motors' perfidy

General Motors has announced a “transformation for the future” — otherwise known as ceasing to make cars and laying off some 14,800 workers in the United States and Canada.

In Lordstown, Ohio, some 1,600 workers have been transformed into a future without jobs.

Northeastern Ohio was already reeling from the elimination of two shifts and 3,000 jobs in Lordstown, where they make the Chevy Cruze, a very fine car that GM says consumers don’t want any more. But what GM’s spokespeople do not say is that they started making Cruzes in Mexico before demand for small cars fell through the bottom of the market and that on the same day that it ended the second shift in Lordstown, it announced the building of a new Chevy Blazer — in Mexico.

And now the Lordstown plant will be shuttered and every last worker pink-slipped.

Happy holidays to the workers of the Mahoning Valley from General Motors and its kinder, gentler, female CEO.