Stellantis Lays Off Hundreds of Workers in US over Trump Tariffs: Reports

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Source: Newsweek

Stellantis has said it is temporarily laying off 900 workers across five U.S. facilities following the announcement of sweeping tariffs from President Donald Trump, Reuters reported.

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In a statement to Newsweek, Stellantis wrote: "As a result of pausing production at several of Stellantis' Canadian and Mexican plants, there will be temporary layoffs at the Warren Stamping and Sterling Stamping plants (Michigan) as well as the Indiana Transmission Plant, Kokomo Transmission Plant and Kokomo Casting Plant (Indiana)."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/stellantis-lays-off-hundreds-workers-us-over-trump-tariffs-reports-2054895

[IronLionZion]

1. Trump is such a job creator like you won't believe

[we can do it]

2. FAFO

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. Anxiously awaiting comment from Shawn Fain about how this is a positive.

[MichMan]

12. Fain is blaming Stellantis

[ForgoTheConsequence]

13. Interesting.

because unifor is blaming trump and said they knew this was coming because of the tariffs.

[Bengus81]

4. Ordinary working people always PAY the price for this crap. We need to make Republicans

in Congress pay a steep price in Nov 2026.

[LiberalArkie]

5. I would almost bet that most of those workers voted for Trump.

[AZ8theist]

6. You are probably correct. This country is LOADED with rubes like this:

[LiberalArkie]

7. Working class folks generally do not have much of a college education. Not at the point where they learn about

other people. If anything they go to a junior college in their community. Never really mixing with other cultures and life styles. Whatever biases they had when leaving high school they end up with when entering the workforce.

In my life the union members I have known, if they were liberal in their mindset it just meant they were just not card carrying members of the John Birch Society. Maybe this is how the 1%ers plan on destroying the unions, from within.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

8. You have never worked on a job site.

You learn about culture by working next to people of all different cultures united in class solidarity. You sometimes trust them with your lives. I have a masters and I’m a union member. I have learned more from eating lunch with my coworkers than I have from cultural anthropology 101.

[LiberalArkie]

10. No not like construction work, For the last 20 years before retirement it was in the corporate environment doing phone

and data work around CWA, IBEW and plumbers and pipefitters. Naturally all male and all white. Before that did computer work in South Arkansas for the refinerys and the chemical plants. Some union, but most not members. Still mainly white and male.

So I have no reference to unions at big places. I did start my work like with AT&*T Western Electric and spent 2 years in NYC during the Viet nam war. Got my lights turned off by one of the IBEW phone guys (I was CWA) for being a COMMIE. This was really before the affirmative action with Bell, so there were no multi racial people or women.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

14. in 2025 the trades have diversified quite a bit.

even here in deep red nebraska. we're not all the uncultured troglodytes one might expect. some of the IBEW folks I work with even wear openly socialist sticker on their helmets.

[Trueblue Texan]

9. Lack of formal education doesn't necessarily mean you lack critical thinking skills...

...or that you lack the ability to research. I went to a junior college and I've been predicting this scenario for more than 2 decades.

[regrestic]

11. And the UAW

endorsed this nut job. I guess the tariffs are working !!! FAFO...