The job losses are anticipated to exceed 14,000. RELATED: Community devastated after announcement that General Motors Lordstown plant to stop production Hours before the Lordstown City Council's first meeting since GM made the announcement, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said in a joint statement that they would be meeting with GM's CEO Mary Barra on Wednesday. The meeting comes as the United Auto Workers union sent a letter to GM to formally object to the decision to end production at four U.S. plants, Lordstown included - the other plant is in Canada. UAW officials said the closures violates statements the company made during contract negotiations in 2015. The Lordstown plant has undergone cuts before. Since 2017, two of the three production shifts have been eliminated, amid a sagging demand for passenger cars and specifically the Cruze, which is built in Lordstown.