According to an Associated Press report, Delphi Corporation told Wisconsin officials this week that it will close its powertrain systems plant in Oak Creek around the end of the year, laying off about 200 employees. The layoffs, which include mostly manufacturing positions, are expected to be permanent.
After being forewarned of the layoffs two years ago, the state Department of Workforce Development in May approved $251,000 in federal funds toward employment-assistance services to workers laid off at Delphi and other Milwaukee-area companies.
The struggling auto-parts supplier, based in Troy, Mich., was formerly part of General Motors Corporation before it was spun off as a separate company in 1999.
Delphi had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005. Last week, it filed a reorganization plan with a federal bankruptcy court that would enable it to emerge from bankruptcy protection by the end of the year.
Oak Creek is about 15 miles south of downtown Milwaukee.
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