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Dec. 29, 1973, The Morning News
GM to halve Boxwood workforce
More than 2,000 workers at General Motors’ Boxwood Road assembly plant at Prices Corner will be laid off indefinitely beginning Jan. 7, the company said yesterday.
Union leaders said employees with as much as seven years’ seniority could be affected.
The cutback, which will put half the plant’s production workers out of a job, is part of a series of actions GM said it is taking because of the shift in demand from large cars to smaller models. …..