Tariff Trouble: GM Cuts 750 Jobs at Oshawa Facility

GM Oshawa Assembly workers facing 700 layoffs amid ongoing Canada-US trade war

General Motors Canada announced Friday that it will idle the third shift at its Oshawa, Ontario assembly plant this coming September. About 700 production workers will be laid off at that time. Another 1,500 supply chain jobs will also be affected.

Tariff Trouble: GM Cuts 750 Jobs at Oshawa Facility

The president of the union that represents workers announced on 2 May that General Motors is cutting off roughly 750 employees at its Oshawa Assembly facility as it adjusts shifts because of US tariffs. According to a news release from Unifor, the plant, which employs about 3,000 people, will switch from operating on three shifts to two shifts beginning this autumn. Unifor would not permit GM to barter Canadian jobs in order to win over Donald T…