DeWitt, NY--New Process Gear Wednesday notified New York that it will lay off 100 workers from its DeWitt auto parts plant beginning Oct. 18. In 2009, New Process Gear's owners, Magna International Inc., said it would close the plant in 2011. The decision came after workers there three times rejected wage and benefit cuts the company said it needed...
The New Process Gear plant will lay off 100 workers at its DeWitt plant.DeWitt, NY--New Process Gear Wednesday notified New York that it will lay off 100 workers from its DeWitt auto parts plant beginning Oct. 18.
In 2009, New Process Gear's owners, Magna International Inc., said it would close the plant in 2011. The decision came after workers there three times rejected wage and benefit cuts the company said it needed to keep the plant open.
Work there is being sent to other Magna facilities, including a plant in Mexico.
The plant currently employs 1,100 workers who make transfer cases that turn two-wheeled drive vehicles into four-wheel drive, said Tracy Fuerst, speaking for the company in an email this morning.
The plant employed 4,000 people in 2002, at the height of the popularity of four-wheel drive sport utility vehicles.