Oshawa Ontario (home of GM's top rated car and truck plant) see's 96% jump
> in employment insurance
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Oshawa's 96% jump in employment insurance recipients leads country> Windsor, Ont., is runner-up as automaking centres show big Sept. increases> Last Updated: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | 7:23 PM ET > Comments138Recommend65> CBC News
Even before the economic shocks of the past two months, Ontario's motor
> cities - Oshawa and Windsor - showed the biggest increases anywhere in the
> country in numbers of people on employment insurance.
> In the third week of September, 480,400 people across the country were
> getting regular EI benefits, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. That > total
> was up 3.9 per cent from a year earlier.
> Among provinces, Ontario showed the biggest jump with 14 per cent.
> Among cities, Oshawa, home of General Motors of Canada, showed the biggest
> by far - 96.4 per cent. Windsor, home of Chrysler Canada, showed the > second
> biggest - 30.4 per cent.
> Both cities have been hit by layoffs and plant closings by companies now
> seeking government bailouts on both sides of the border to prevent the
> disappearance of a North American-based auto industry.
> The U.S. Congress has been deadlocked on the issue but president-elect
> Barack Obama said this week that "we can't allow the auto industry simply > to
> vanish."
> Statistics Canada gathers unemployment insurance statistics for a week > near
> the middle of each month. The figures here include those receiving regular
> benefits (for example, as a result of layoff) but not special benefits > (for
> example, as a result of illness).
>
> GM lays off additional 700 workers at Oshawa Ontario
> plant:
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Updated Thu. Dec. 4 2008 11:59 PM ET> The Canadian Press> TORONTO -- The CAW says GM will temporarily lay off the third shift at its> Oshawa car plant in the first week of February, putting about 700 workers> out of a job.
> The line that builds Impalas is already scheduled to be down from next
> Monday until early January.
> CAW spokeswoman Shannon Devine said Thursday night the workers were told > of
> the shift cut earlier in the evening.
> GM could not be reached for comment.
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> Third shift will go down indefinitely in
> February
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Dec 05, 2008 - 06:45 AM> OSHAWA -- The hits just keep on coming for local auto workers.> General Motors Canada announced last night it will temporarily idle the> third shift at the Oshawa car plant starting the first week of February. > The
> move will result in the layoff of about 700 workers.
> The car plant will be closed for a month over the holidays beginning next
> week. Workers are scheduled to be back on the job Jan. 12 and the third
> shift will be shut down the first week of February. The move is indefinite
> but is supposed to be temporary.
> The news of the layoffs came on the eve of a deadline for Canadian > carmakers
> to provide a restructuring plan to federal and Ontario politicians who > have
> been asked to bail out the troubled industry.
>
> To all the "Jim Higgins'", "Gosi's", and other "letting the Big 3 die > won't
> hurt anyone" people in North America, take a good look at what the Big 3's
> downturn is doing to one town, and think of what would happen if Oshawa > were
> *your* hometown.
with all due respect and sincere sympathy, if the cars aren't selling, then the cars aren't selling, and it is wiser to spend money on cars that do sell. the management of gm had plenty of fair warning that their cars weren't selling, and they refused to use common business sense and develop cars that will sell. The oshawa plant is still there, the people are still there. I have written to the premier of ontario, suggesting ontario loans magna sufficient funds to assist magna to buy some gm assests based in ontario. It is my belief that stronach possesses sufficent business sense to develop better cars that will sell well. People need good cars; and they will buy the better car because it makes more sense. New thinking has to start at the top, because it is there where people decide to recycle old ideas or invent new ones;. it is a way for you to get that new car that will take the world by storm. ======================================================
GM makes award winning cars:
2008 Pontiac Grand Prix was recognized as the Highest Ranked Large Car in Initial Quality
2007 Line #2 received the J.D. Power and Associates Silver Plant Quality Award, North/South America Pontiac Grand Prix was recognized as Highest Ranked Large Car in Initial Quality
2006 Line # 2 received the J.D. Power and Associates Gold Award for the Best Quality Assembly Plant in North and South America Pontiac Grand Prix was recognized as the Highest Ranked Large Car in Initial Quality Chevrolet Monte Carlo was recognized with a J.D. Power APPEAL Award
2005 Line # 2 received the J.D. Power and Associates Gold Plant Quality Award, North/South America Line #1 received the J.D. Power and Associates Silver Plant Quality Award, North/South America Oshawa swept the Premium Midsize segment, with the Buick Century recognized as "Best in Segment" Buick LaCrosse/Allure was recognized as the "Best Launch Vehicle"
2004 Buick Century recognized as the Highest Ranked Premium Midsize Car in Initial Quality
2003 Line #1 received the J.D. Power and Associates Gold Plant Quality Award, North/South America
2002 Line # 2 received the J.D. Power and Associates Gold Plant Quality Award, North/South America Buick Century recognized as the Best Premium Midsize Car in Initial Quality.
That is just from the Oshawa plant. The problem is there are too many brainwashed people who think anything from Japan is better then anything from North America. This has been proven false on many occasions. GM's quality has been going up, while Toyota's has been going down. They just have a really good PR department, and can make people believe grass is purple.