White Marsh GM Workers To Receive Layoff Notices: Report

WHITE MARSH, MD — Employees at GM's White Marsh plant will reportedly be laid off on Monday, Feb. 4. The layoffs come a little more than two months after the company announced it would be closing five plants in North America as it restructures its business.

The plant in the 10300 block of Philadelphia Road in White Marsh is among those slated for closure.

The White Marsh plant has been open since 2000 and creates transmissions for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra as well as electric drive motors for the Cadillac.

It has a staff of 310 people, according to GM.

According to ABC 2 News, the plant will close in April, and workers there received "pink slips" on Monday along with thousands of other employees whose jobs are being trimmed.

General Motors will lay off 14,700 factory and white-collar workers in North America and put five plants up for possible closure as it restructures to cut costs and focus more on autonomous and electric vehicles, the Associated Press reported in late November.

This week GM plans to lay off 4,000 people to meet a target before its fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, according to NBC.

Baltimore County has pledged to help impacted workers through the Eastpoint Career Center, and GM has also said it will offer job placement assistance.

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After the plant in White Marsh closes, it is unclear what will happen to the property.

Chesapeake Realty Partners, the developer that proposed the Paragon Outlets project, is interested in the site, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

File photo by Elizabeth Janney.