GM to Kill Nine Plants while DaimlerChrysler Announces Big Spending in Canada
As part of a cost cutting plan that sees Canada's GM workers suffer less from the ensuing fallout than its UAW brothers and sisters south of the 49th, the impact on some 3,000 individuals and their families will be just as devastating when Oshawa reduces Plant 1 from three lines to two, and then finally, in 2008, shutters Plant 2 completely, the same year it closes down its St. Catharines, Ontario, Street West powertrain parts plant.
