New York CNN —General Motors and Ford are laying off 500 additional workers between them, blaming the expansion of the strike announced by the United Auto Workers union at those companies on Friday.
General Motors said it was laying off 164 workers at stamping plants in Parma, Ohio, and Marion, Indiana.
Ford said it laid off 330 workers at its Chicago Stamping Plant and Lima Engine Plant following the union’s decision Friday to strike its Chicago Assembly plant, which made the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator SUVs.
It had previously laid off 600 hourly workers at the Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan who were not on strike.
Those benefits for both strikers and laid-off UAW members will cost the union about $14.3 million a week, but it went into the strike with $825 million in its strike fund.
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