City Urged to Seek Aid for Auto Workers
Two Los Angeles City Council members suggested Wednesday that the city should apply for state and federal money to pay for retraining and counseling the 2,600 workers expected to lose their jobs when the General Motors plant closes in Van Nuys.
Councilmen Joel Wachs and Ernani Bernardi introduced a motion to ask the state for $50,000. That money would be used to write applications for other state and federal grants to assist workers who will lose their jobs when the 44-year-old plant closes.
General Motors last Friday announced that the plant--where Chevrolet Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds are built--will be closed by August, 1992.
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