GM Cut 1,000 Workers at Its EV Plant, Then Added Robots

General Motors Facing Backlash For Replacing Over 1,000 Human Workers With 50 Robots At Detroit Plant

General Motors has replaced workers with robots at its Detroit plant amid union concerns and an automation push.

GM Replaces Over 1,000 Detroit Workers With Just 50 Robots as EV Dreams Collapse

General Motors has delivered a stark lesson in modern American manufacturing: when government-pushed electric vehicle mandates meet market reality, it is the American worker who pays the price. At the company’s flagship Factory Zero plant in Detroit-Hamtramck, more than 1,000 jobs have been eliminated, only to be partially filled by 50 collaborative robots, or “cobots,”...

GM Cut 1,000 Workers at Its EV Plant, Then Added Robots

GM replaces more than 1,000 workers with 50 robots at flagship Detroit plant: ‘We’re disgusted’

General Motors has gutted its electric-vehicle ambitions and killed more than 1,000 jobs at its flagship Detroit assembly plant — replacing those workers with 50 robots and sparking outrage from labor unions.