gm cutting 50 jobs at u.s. battery plant tied to chevy volt - 3.7 volt lithium ion battery

WASHINGTON (Reuters)-
GM said Tuesday it plans to cut 50 jobs in suburban Detroit.
Largest ion battery assembly plant in the United StatesS.
Automakers announced last month that they would stop production of their plugs.
2019 Chevrolet Volt hybrid.
In a document submitted to Michigan, GM disclosed that it would cut 37 hours of work and 13 paid jobs at the Brownstown Battery plant in February.
GM said on its website that there are 116 employees in the factory.
The factory also assembled lithium.
Ion batteries for other cars GM is about to stop producing, including hybrid Buick LaCrosse.
The layoff at the Brownstown plant is something outside the layoffs that GM announced last month.
The Detroit carmaker said it would stop production at five factories in North America, including four in the United States, and cancel up to 15,000 jobs.
GM is cutting production of six cars: Volt, LaCrosse, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Cruze, Cadillac CT6 and Cadillac XTS.
GM said last week that it will provide other assembly plant jobs to 2,800 active hourly workers who have finished production in Michigan, Ohio and Maryland.
In another notice released on Tuesday, GM said it would lay off nearly 700 jobs in Detroit in February --
Hamtramck plant, which is scheduled to be discontinued next year.
The plant will end production of Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Volt by March 1, and end production of two other cars by June.
GM has cut 15% of its 54,000 paid employees in North America and plans to cut thousands of white employees.
Some workers agreed to encourage white-collar workers to leave voluntarily after January.