http://www.detnews.com/article/20110914/AUTO01/109140374/1148/auto01/In-Lordstown--there%E2%80%99s-a-new-sense-of-realism

By Christina Rogers; The Detroit News ~ Sep 14, 2011 

Lordstown, Ohio— Workers at the General Motors Co. plant here are no strangers to uncertainty. 

Two years ago, the fate of the Lordstown plant hung in the balance. The work force had dwindled to a couple of thousand — down from a peak of 12,000 workers in 1985 — and the factory itself was limping by on one shift.