General Motors has officially announced it will stop production at its Oshawa plant in 2019, confirming media reports from Sunday evening. The move will affect thousands of unionized jobs — according to GM’s website, the Oshawa Assembly Plant employs 2,522 workers with Unifor Local 222. According to GM’s website, production at the Oshawa plant began on Nov. 7, 1953. There’s no reason for the company to have done this.”Workers leave the Oshawa plant on Monday Nov 26. Unifor said it has been informed that there is no product allocated to the Oshawa plant past December 2019.

Source: thestar November 26, 2018 15:41 UTC