Devastated General Motors Workers Gather in Prayer Over the Closure of Their Ohio Plant

Venus Walker, of Warren, Ohio and a GM employee with 12 years at the Lordstown plant, prays during a vigil outside the Lordstown GM plant, on Nov. 29, 2018. William D. Lewis/The Vindicator via AP

Hundreds of General Motors workers gathered in prayer after the announcement that the firm would close a plant in Lordstown.

The workers appeared outside the GM plant on Nov. 29. It is among five plants across the United States and Canada that are slated to close in 2019 as the company moves to lay off about 14,500 workers.