Automaker Stellantis announced plans Wednesday to cut a manufacturing shift and indefinitely lay off roughly 1,100 workers at a Jeep plant in Ohio.The company, which has been battling high inventory levels and lower earnings this year,

The move from two to one shifts does not come as a surprise, with the pickup's sales slowing this year and the automaker trying to slash inventories.

The UAW bureaucracy is collaborating with Stellantis to eliminate a shift at the giant plant in northwestern Ohio.