Video: Workers Fight as Dealership Closes

Wayland Chevrolet, a car dealership in Wayland, Michigan, closed its doors for good on Friday. As the news reached employees, multiple fights started breaking out between workers. Video of one of the fights shows two employees scuffling outside of the dealership. Police in the city indicated that they had been to the location earlier in the day after a report of a fight.

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The owners of the dealership say that the poor economy was to blame, as was the fact that General Motors is scheduled to shut down a factory in the nearby city of Grand Rapids. Wayland Chevrolet is one of many hundreds of dealerships around the United States that have had to close in the last year.

In the video of the fight, which was filmed by WWMT-TV, one of the men involved in the scuffle said that emotions were running high because many of the newly unemployed workers will now face foreclosure and the daunting task of supporting their families through the current economic recession.

According to wire reports, Wayland Chevrolet employed nearly three dozen people at the time of its closure.