Oshawa General Motors

• GM Canada temporarily lays off 1,200 employees as U.S. strike continues

  The employees, who work on the Oshawa truck line, will still receive full wages while the strike by some 48,000 GM workers in the U.S. continues.

  Canada

  Sep 18, 2019
  
• Oshawa GM plant closure to cost Durham more than 5,000 jobs: union president

  The head of the union representing thousands of workers at GM's Oshawa plant warns the closure will have a "devastating" impact on Durham Region.

  Economy

  Dec 4, 2018
  
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• Oshawa GM plant did not need to close

  General Motors of Canada has been part of Oshawa since 1918. Had the Canadian and Ontario governments placed more stringent conditions on the $3-billion bailout of GM in 2009, the Oshawa plant might have been saved.

  Commentary

  Nov 27, 2018
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• Unifor head urges feds to give GM ‘the middle finger’ with tariffs over Oshawa plant closure

  Jerry Dias repeatedly urged the government to threaten imposing steep new tariffs on any vehicles General Motors might try to export to Canada from its plants in Mexico.

  Canada

  Nov 27, 2018
• General Motors closure in Oshawa not a symptom of Trump’s trade battle: experts

  General Motors' decision to close factories and lay off thousands of people is more about tactics than the balance sheet, say trade observers and automotive industry experts.

  Canada

  Nov 27, 2018
• General Motors cutback in car production at Oshawa plant to be extended: report

  The automaker had halted production of Cadillac XTS and Chevrolet Impala cars for three weeks in January.

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2018