His franchise provides catering up to three times a day for neighbouring manufacturers such as Abipa, a Quebec aeronautics maker founded two years after the GM plant closed in 2002. “It’s business meetings, it’s students studying, it’s communities coming together.” In the wake of GM’s announcement that it will shutter its assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. “Closing assembly plants is not unusual. “For these workers, this is not a GM plant; it’s their plant,” Levesque said of the Boisbriand and Oshawa employees. Others were near retirement age and received full pensions, while more than a handful took up jobs at the GM plant in Oshawa.

Source: thestar November 29, 2018 18:22 UTC