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December 13, 2018

Cathy Majtenyi: Closure of Oshawa GM plant is a wake-up call

It’s no secret that GM has steadily moved operations to Mexico. It’s not difficult to find out why the jobs went south. In 2017, Mexican assembly plant workers were paid around $2.70 an hour, about 10 per cent of what workers with full seniority earn at Canadian and American plants.

It’s a huge blow to the more than 2,500 workers, their families, the city of Oshawa and communities across Ontario. The closure of General Motors by the end of 2019 rips at the heart of generations of families with ties to the province’s auto manufacturing glory days.

Published in Register Columnists