Video: GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Worker Discusses Plant Closure

Dnitra Landon, a GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly worker, talks before the start of her shift about her feeling on the closing of the plant.

Nov 29, 2018

Dnitra Landon, a GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly worker, talks before the start of her shift about her feeling on the closing of the plant. 

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