General Motors workers held the prayer vigil outside the Lordstown, Ohio plant on Thursday afternoon.
It's among the five GM plants across North America to close next year
Emotional co-workers hugged each other and wiped away tears as they prayed
A Lordstown employee, Norman Perry, said workers were just trying to stay positive in the wake of the news earlier this week.
GM announced on Monday that it would shutter the five plants, stop building six low-selling passenger cars in North America and cut up to 15,000 jobs.
A Lordstown employee, Norman Perry, told Fox 8 that workers were just trying to stay positive in the wake of the news earlier this week.
'Everyone just wants to keep working right now and get through this. Christmas is coming, they want to enjoy Christmas,' he said.
'This is a time where we should be lifted up.
'We're just trying to lift spirits and that what all this (the vigil) is all about.'
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