GM to close all operations in Oshawa

Makes sense. Losing the Camaro a couple years ago hurt them. The new regals are obviously not built there either.

They were an overflow for the Equinox from the nearby Ingersoll assembly but that's no longer needed with the new gen.

Likewise, they've started doing final assembly on the "previous gen" Silverado/Sierra but that's only for a year as the other plants gear up/ramp up production of the new body style.
 
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If true, this will be a major blow to the local economy.

Automotive companies are all reporting bad numbers, sales are declining. Economy is not as robust as our politicians want you to believe.

Barra wants to maintain GM profitable, she is doing the right thing.
 
allroad said:
If true, this will be a major blow to the local economy.

Automotive companies are all reporting bad numbers, sales are declining. Economy is not as robust as our politicians want you to believe.

Barra wants to maintain GM profitable, she is doing the right thing.
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GM went from monthly sales numbers to quarterly. The writing has been on the wall for those who can read. 96 month finance terms and channel stuffing were other good indications. Had I been more risk tolerant, I would have shorted the big auto companies but the market could stay irrational longer than I can't stay solvent.

Big picture, sooner than later 2008 is going to look like minor bump for the auto industry compared to the day of reckoning. The government just put off the inevitable by printing lots of money. What remains to be seen is if they do it again.
 
When you bailout a company from bankrucy and a few years later still put thousands of workers out of a job, that's when we have to understand that bailouts simply don't work.
 
Make Amarica great again, fu... Canada..:thefinger
Ford stocks are now also considered junk.. not good...
 
allroad said:
If true, this will be a major blow to the local economy.

Automotive companies are all reporting bad numbers, sales are declining. Economy is not as robust as our politicians want you to believe.

Barra wants to maintain GM profitable, she is doing the right thing.
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On critique les pertes d'emplois mais c'est des décisions stratégiques pour assuré la pérénité de l'entreprise.

Les chaines de montage se modernise, les jobs reliés a l'assemblage diminue. On a vue avec le bailout que les masses salariales et les charges a l'employeurs étaient un gros facteur dans le bilan économique d'un entreprise.

On parle de 6 milliard d'économie... C'est pas rien. C'est 6 milliards de plus en liquidité pour consolider les emplois actuels, investirs dans la recherche et le développement, etc.
 
L'industrie de la main d'oeuvre est en train de changer avec les chaines d'assemblage motorisees et robotisees qui s'en viennent (ou sont carrement deja ici) c'est fini les job a temps plein pour du monde comme lui:


Le gars a une carriere en "metteur de planches de bois sur un convoyeur..."

Attendez que les robots de restaurants commencent a faire leur apparition vous allez capoter la premiere fois que le seul "front" staff dans un restaurant ce sera un cabaret a roulettes pis un iPad.
 
Un exemple de ce que le gouvernement Canadien devrait tenter avec GM c'est de conserver un expertise dans la région. Trouvez un compromit ou un terrain d'entente.

BRP a Valcourt ont délocalisé les VTT, side by side et finalement les seadoo. Ils ont ensuite fait un gel des salaires pour 5 ans et investir 130 milllions pour consolider les emplois dans la fabrication de motoneige et investie dans le centre de design avancé et le centre de recherche.

Le nb de job a, overall, diminué mais la qualité des jobs a monté.


Actuellement les pickup GM sont fabriqué au Canada et au Mexique.
 
ils vont aussi abandonné la volt hybride pour ce concentrer sur le electrique a 100%.

Est-ce la raison de la fermeture? changement technologique?
 
lord_galathon said:
L'industrie de la main d'oeuvre est en train de changer avec les chaines d'assemblage motorisees et robotisees qui s'en viennent (ou sont carrement deja ici) c'est fini les job a temps plein pour du monde comme lui:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eChRmcH3dJY

Le gars a une carriere en "metteur de planches de bois sur un convoyeur..."

Attendez que les robots de restaurants commencent a faire leur apparition vous allez capoter la premiere fois que le seul "front" staff dans un restaurant ce sera un cabaret a roulettes pis un iPad.
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yé bourré de tendinite aussi lol.
 
General Motors’s plant in Oshawa, Ont., will be one of five North American facilities scuttled in 2019, the U.S. auto giant confirmed Monday. The closings, part of a global shift to electric and autonomous vehicle production, will put more than 2,500 in Oshawa out of work, part of up to 14,700 jobs eliminated across the continent.

The changes are part of a shift in the company’s global production toward autonomous and zero-emission vehicles, Mary Barra, GM’s chief executive officer, said at a Monday news conference. “The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile, resilient and profitable, while giving us the flexibility to invest in the future,” she said. The company expects to save US$6-billion from the cutbacks.
 
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