DELPHI: Company to lay off 100 trades workers

Delphi Corp. is placing about 100 skilled trades workers at its Lockport plant on indefinite layoff over the next few months.

The indefinite layoffs are due to a large decline in customer volumes and the completion of building consolidations at the Lockport plant, said Claudia Piccinin, a Delphi spokeswoman. Part of the layoffs are an effect of General Motors reduction in the number of vehicles assembled. General Motors is a large customer for Delphi, Piccinin said.

Some of the layoffs started a few months ago, and others will continue over the next several months, she said. Piccinin said the company has not set a date for the workers to be called back to their jobs.

The trades workers are represented by United Auto Workers Local 686 Unit 1. Delphi’s Lockport plant has about 2,600 hourly and salaried employees.
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