„Wir haben alles getan, was wir konnten“: GM Oshawa wird am Freitag bis zu 1.200 Arbeiter entlassen | CBC-Nachrichten
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-oshawa-to-lay-off-1-200-workers-friday-9.7065457
„Wir haben alles getan, was wir konnten“: GM Oshawa wird am Freitag bis zu 1.200 Arbeiter entlassen | CBC-Nachrichten
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gm-oshawa-to-lay-off-1-200-workers-friday-9.7065457
29 Kommentare
We’re learning hard lessons about having too many eggs in one basket. Whether its trump or whoever comes next, they won’t have our interests in heart over their own, and protectionism isn’t going to be a passing fad.
Keep diversifying our trade and promoting our own industries. At this point it’s not even a economic war, if we want to maintain our sovereignty going forward we can’t have 3/4s of our economy tied up with America, theres going to be hits like this.
Fuck American cars, buy asian or European.
I’m done buying US cars. Recently my wife and I bought new vehicles for changing family needs and went Japanese. I’ll never go back.
After owning US brands my entire life the quality and materials for comparable vehicles offered by Japanese brands is not even close. South Korean brands were strongly considered too.
This union head guy is delusional. „Most reliable trading partner“ is not what anyone paying attention to the current situation would describe the US as, and going back to normal, like he says we should, isn’t an option. „Relentlessly pursuing the US“ is not a solution because that would just allow too much US control of us, and that isn’t an option.
And [then] we can go back to normal,” he said. “That’s the best answer for us, is go back to the United States, our most reliable, dependable trading partner for the last 100 years.”
These people are just delusional.
They want your jobs, they want your resources, they want to make us a vassal state. HURR DURR everything is fine they will be good partners
I’m learning more and more about politics, and try to keep my bias out of decisions.
The more I look at this problem, I believe that canada should look to diversify while still looking to get a deal with our largest trading partner. 1200 people can now be jobless. CUSMA still exists, but what happens if we don’t get a deal?
How do you get a deal with a person like trump? Thats why we elected Carney. Its not for me to figure out, but for him.
This can’t continue.
Auto workers are literally victims of domestic violence. Beaten up by the US but still keeps saying “but he loves me!”
Pathetic
So we had CUSMA and these jobs where decided to go last may. So what would a new CUSMA even mean.
GM does everything they can to ensure their investors and the top management make as much profits as possible. They DO NOT care about their employees.
The auto industry in Canada hasn’t been sustainable in decades.
The only difference is this time, our government is too poor to bail them out and float then for another couple of years.
(Anyone getting laid off is awful), but this company should’ve been dead 20 years ago.
so Chinese cars are back on the menu? although I wouldn’t change my subaru for anything.
3000 Brampton Chrysler plant employees , 1200 GM Ingersoll brightdrop plant workers say welcome to the club. Brampton workers have been laid off for 2 yr now Canadian consumers really need to boycott all stellantis & gm vehicles made in USA and being sold in Canada. Buy yourself an Ontario made Toyota or Honda. F the USA Detroit based manufacturing’s companies.
Well, if I need another vehicle, GM is officially off the table. Shove your Silverado up your a$$
It’s cool folks, we got a bunch of cars from China coming.
Can we get Chinese companies to build their cars here instead?
And Korean too?
Meanwhile, school board salary across Ontario got a 20-30% raise in 2024. Expect never ending increases in property taxes.
They were warned about this long ago, we all knew this was coming and signs seem to suggest this is just the beginning. If you’re working in the auto sector at this point without a back up plan it…..kinda seems like this is in you at this point
Bummer. I just hope this doesnt affect Mary Barra’s annual $25 million bonus.
We need to stop building cars. It’s pointless here in Canada.
How about that Chinese and South Korean trade deal huh? Elbows up? Internal investment and domestic production improvement huh?
Everyone needs to make sure they do not buy a car made in the USA.
is this what Doug was fighting for?
Yet another reason not to buy a GM car or truck. Fuck the USA.
We need Korean and Chinese auto manufacturers to open plants here now, forget about the US forever.
Canada auto sector is basically 100% dependent on exporting to the USA market. Canada market is too small to support the production of so many vehicles.
This is gonna hurt Oshawa so much
For chinas EV? lol
Haven’t bought a product from the big 3 in 20 years. Always buy Japanese (some from Canadian plants), the quality is noticeably better, as well as backing the product.
Cue one of Poilievre’s open letters to Mark Carney. Working on a bingo card, here’s what I’ve got so far:
– He will lie and claim that Mark Carney promised a deal with the USA by July 21st (he didn’t).
– He will offer to assist with negotiations, at least alluding to (if not outright stating) the friendship between Jamil Jivani and JD Vance as being an asset (it isn’t)
– He will call Mark Carney to a debate in the HOC next week, childishly referencing his schedule (“I know you’re in town; meet me if you dare”).
– He’ll work in something about the “Lost Liberal Decade”
– Conservatives would *never* let this happen and are friends to the working class (ignoring that the collapse in Canadian manufacturing goes back decades).
– some reference to the speech in Davos, “empty rhetoric doesn’t keep jobs in Canada.”
Buy Canadian! Canadian-manufactured vehicles have a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) that starts with the number 2. Canadian made cars should have a red visible maple leaf sticker in the windshield.