OSHAWA, ONT.—Unionized workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., staged a second work-stoppage after the company confirmed it would not reconsider plans to close the facility. Workers halted the line Tuesday night at General Motors in Oshawa after the company rejected proposals to keep the Assembly Plant open. Article Continued BelowThe economic analysis estimates the closure of the plant by the end of the year will result in 14,000 fewer jobs in Ontario and 10,000 fewer jobs outside the province by 2025, compared with keeping the assembly plant open. Those would include 4,400 jobs at GM Oshawa and its parts suppliers in Ontario that would be lost in 2020 as well as lost direct and indirect opportunities from keeping the assembly plant open for an additional five years. GM has said the options suggested by the union to keep the Oshawa plant open, including extending the life of the Chevy Impala and Cadillac XTS produced at the plant or shifting production slated for Mexico to the plant, are not economically viable.

Source: thestar January 09, 2019 13:07 UTC