The US automakers will talk to United Auto Workers (UAW) delegates this month over contract issues. There are concerns among some workers at Lordstown and 11 other General Motors assembly plants scattered across the US over their jobs moving to south.

A $350 million investment plan in a Mexican factory was previously announced by GM to build the Chevrolet Cruze compact car. The plant for building the car for all of North America is currently located in Lordstown, east of Cleveland.

Hundreds of United Auto Workers delegates also gathered in March to devise ways to go ahead with contract talks with the US automakers.

Nick Waun, a worker at an SUV plant outside Lansing, Mich., said the partnership with the union will be ruined by moving a lot of stuff to Mexico.

The impending talks are expected to be the toughest in recent memory. The union has to say that it has already done its part by sacrificing in previous contracts, and it's the time to increase pay of workers, given the auto companies are now earning billions in profits.

GM and Ford, on the other hand, have to say that labor costs are already higher than at Honda or Toyota.

"The UAW says it's our turn. We've sacrificed. The companies say we can't go back to old ways, we can't go back to getting locked into wage increases that multiply over time", said Kristin Dziczek, head of the industry and labor group for the Center for Automotive Research.