{"id":191097,"date":"2018-11-25T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=191097"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:11:50","slug":"mayor-of-oshawa-ont-hopes-report-of-gm-closure-is-just-a-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/25\/mayor-of-oshawa-ont-hopes-report-of-gm-closure-is-just-a-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor of Oshawa, Ont., hopes report of GM closure is ‘just a rumour’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: General Motors Canada Headquarters in Oshawa, Ontario (Photo<\/a>: Robert Taylor\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OSHAWA, Ont. \u2014 Reports of the pending closure of a General Motors Canada plant in Oshawa, Ont., are hopefully \u201cjust a rumour,\u201d the mayor of the city east of Toronto said Sunday.<\/p>\n

CTV News reported Sunday evening that General Motors Canada plans to shut down its Oshawa Assembly Plant, affecting thousands of jobs in the city of roughly 170,000.<\/p>\n

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A spokeswoman for the company said Sunday that GM had \u201cno news or comment tonight\u201d and would not be commenting on speculation.<\/p>\n

Oshawa Mayor John Henry said Sunday evening he had not spoken to anyone from GM, and he first heard about the reported closure from a CTV reporter who called him for comment earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully it’s just a rumour,\u201d Henry said in a phone interview, adding the closure would have ripple effects beyond Oshawa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s going to affect the province, it’s going to affect the region … The auto industry’s been a big part of the province of Ontario for over 100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal and provincial politicians also weighed in on the CTV report, expressing concern for the thousands of high-paying jobs at the Oshawa plant \u2014 as well as the potential trickle-down effect a closure could have.<\/p>\n

Jennifer French, who represents Oshawa in the provincial legislature, said she finds the report \u201cgravely concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf GM Canada is indeed turning its back on 100 years of industry and community \u2014 abandoning workers and families in Oshawa \u2014 then this is a callous decision that must be fought,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cGM didn’t build #Oshawa. Oshawa built GM,\u201d French added in a tweet.<\/p>\n

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Conservative MP Colin Carrie, who according to his website spent his summers as a youth working in the Oshawa plant, called the reports \u201cvery concerning\u201d and promised to \u201clook further into the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to GM’s website, the Oshawa Assembly Plant employs 2,522 workers with Unifor Local 222. Production began on Nov. 7, 1953, and in the 1980s the plant employed roughly 23,000 people.<\/p>\n

Unifor national president Jerry Dias said in April that the Oshawa complex was headed for closure in June of this year. But he noted the former head of GM Canada, Steve Carlisle, was determined it wouldn’t close on his watch.<\/p>\n

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Carlisle was moved that month to head Cadillac, the global automaker’s luxury car division as part of a management rotation.<\/p>\n

At the time of the transfer, Dias said Carlisle’s appointment to head Cadillac would raise his profile and influence within GM’s headquarters in Detroit, and that \u201cwould be a huge benefit for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oshawa operation became a Donald Trump talking point during Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, according to a Toronto Star report about an off-the-record aside during an interview with Bloomberg News over the summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we have a problem with a point, I just put up a picture of a Chevrolet Impala,\u201d the U.S. president was reported to have said. The Impala is built at the GM plant in Oshawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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