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   No loss to Canada.  You can only 'bail out' a shit corporation for so long   
   with taxpayers' dollars .   
   . .  it will sink itself from poor customer relations, poorly-built vehicles,   
   and coverups for major   
   safety issues.   
      
   You've been threatening to take your business back to the U.S. . . . . take   
   it, and good luck to   
   those you employ there.   
   The Ontario government has sold its GM shares.  The Harper government has sold   
   its federal (our   
   money) GM shares.   
   Don't ever be thinking there will be another bailout for your shit company in   
   Canada.  Working for   
   GM is like working in the tarsands.  It's a blight on our economy and our   
   environment.   
      
   PS:  And we still remember which company killed the EV1 electric car.   
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   The Globe and Mail -  April 30, 2015   
      
      
   GM's Oshawa plant to lose 1,000 jobs; company to invest $5.4-billion in U.S.   
      
      
   Employment at the General Motors of Canada Ltd. assembly plants in Oshawa,   
   Ont., will drop by 1,000   
   people to 2,600 in November when production of the Chevrolet Camaro shifts to   
   Michigan.   
      
   More than two years after announcing that Camaro production would move from   
   Oshawa to Michigan, GM   
   Canada said the last Canadian-built version of the car will roll off the   
   assembly line on Nov. 20.   
      
   The announcement about job cuts in Oshawa came hours after parent company   
   General Motors Co. said it   
   will invest $5.4-billion (U.S.) during the next three years in its U.S. plants.   
      
   None of that money is intended for Oshawa, whose future still depends on the   
   outcome of negotiations   
   next year between GM and Unifor, which represents workers in Oshawa and in St.   
   Catharines, Ont.,   
   where GM makes engines and transmissions.   
      
   "GM Canada continues to examine a range of longer-term opportunities and   
   competitiveness   
   enhancements for Oshawa Assembly working with Unifor, government, supplier and   
   community partners to   
   ensure our operations are as innovative, cost efficient and cost competitive   
   as they can be," GM   
   Canada said in a statement.   
      
   The immediate impact of the Camaro move is the loss of one shift in Oshawa,   
   where 3,600 workers now   
   toil on four shifts making six vehicles.   
      
   When the Camaro goes, Oshawa will be down to 2,600 workers over three shifts   
   making five vehicles.   
      
   "We knew it was coming but it doesn't make it any easier when it gets here,"   
   Unifor president Jerry   
   Dias said.  "The timing of it – with the $5.4-billion in the U.S. – the   
   timing could have been   
   better for sure."   
      
   About 60 per cent of the workers in Oshawa are nearing retirement, GM Canada   
   president Stephen   
   Carlisle said in a statement, which means there could be no layoffs.   
      
   Under the contract with Unifor, GM Canada offers a $50,000 (Canadian)   
   retirement incentive to   
   production workers and a $60,000 payout to skilled trades workers.  They are   
   also eligible for a   
   $20,000 voucher to buy a new GM vehicle.   (^ﺪ͟͠^)   
      
   It's almost certain, Mr. Dias said, that 1,000 workers will opt for early   
   retirement, which would   
   mean no layoffs.   
      
   But the bigger issue is whether there will be replacement products for the   
   remaining GM vehicles   
   later this decade or whether the Camaro is the beginning of the end of auto   
   production in Oshawa,   
   where GM cranked out 940,000 vehicles in its peak year of 2003.    Production   
   fell to 272,000 last year.   
      
   A plant that assembled full-sized pickup trucks closed in 2009 and one of the   
   two remaining car   
   plants is scheduled to shut down next year.   
      
   Mr. Dias said he's pleased about an announcement GM Canada made earlier this   
   week to add 100   
   engineers to its research and development centre in Oshawa.   
      
   "But we're not going to rest until we have a solution for Oshawa and St.   
   Catharines," he said.   
      
   Ontario Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid said his first priority is   
   to help secure new   
   investment for Oshawa.   
      
   The new jobs at the engineering centre and an investment of several hundred   
   million dollars at GM's   
   Cami plant in Ingersoll, Ont., are positive signs, Mr. Duguid said, "but we   
   still have a ways to go   
   to get the commitment we're looking for and that's a future mandate for this   
   plant beyond 2016."   
      
   The shift of Camaro production out of Oshawa marks the second time Canada has   
   lost the car.   
      
   GM discontinued that muscle car and its cousin the Pontiac Firebird in 2001   
   and closed the plant in   
   Ste-Thérèse, Que., northwest of Montreal, where they were assembled.   
      
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