After three days of protests and a sit-down meeting with CAW president Buzz Hargrove, General Motors isn’t budging in its decision to close its Oshawa, Ontario truck plant. Hargrove met with GM CEO Rick Wagoner early on Friday, but was unhappy with the results.
According to Automotive News, Wagoner told Hargrove that the plant will be shut down in September of 2009, as planned. Hargrove is now exploring the CAW’s options, which could include a strike, arbitration or a labor board action.
GM announced that it would be closing four truck and SUVs plants — including the Oshawa facility — as demand for those vehicles continues to sag in the face of $4 a gallon gasoline.
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06/06, 11:37 AM
posted by:
Fletch
Go ahead and strike, that will do a lot of good.
06/06, 11:51 AM
posted by:
golf4me
Yeah, and the CAW/UAW wonder why they are losing plants. Their answer to everything is strike or sue. Hargrove, take it like a man. You really should have said “OK you need to close this plant, is there anything we can do to avoid other plant closures?” That would have been the more appropriate response.
06/06, 12:01 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
LMFAO golf4me! That’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever read. But you’re right.
06/06, 1:10 PM
posted by:
Jazz
How do you respond to someone that signs a contract and then bails on it less than 60 days later?
06/06, 1:44 PM
posted by:
Bimmer
GM told Hargrove to Buzz off!
06/06, 1:53 PM
posted by:
tob
Jazz I hear what your saying but a lot has happened in the last 60 days in the truck \ suv market. (hear that big sucking sound?) I think it was a good idea for Hargrove to meet with wagner but once they couldn’t work something out then it should be done with. A strike…they don’t want trucks anyways jackass, take like a man and don’t be a bitch.
06/06, 2:46 PM
posted by:
golf4me
Hey Johnny…glad I could make YOU laugh for a change! You are right, it is completely absurd, but that’s the sad part.
06/06, 9:34 PM
posted by:
DeansterTJ
Ah, this sucks for all involved. Hargrove will succeed in nothing but emptying the union’s coffers fighting the inevitable. Buzz Hargrove, if you’re reading this I have a message for you: time to pack it in, you ****ing fat corporate cat masquerading as Che Guevara. Your mother’s a whore.
06/06, 9:50 PM
posted by:
jayjc08
This is sad, but every time I read one of these articles, the first thing that comes to mind of the CAW is “ridiculous, angry, threatening, imposing; mob”.
06/07, 6:44 PM
posted by:
MurcieMe
I just don’t understand why the unions (American and Canadian) seem to have no understanding of the auto market, or at least they don’t seem to care! They seem to completely ignore market trends and the financial woes of the companies they work for.
They just want to make cars, get paid, get great benefits & retirement packages. They don’t seem to care that nobody’s buying the cars / trucks they make, nor do they they care when the automakers are facing bankruptcy!
I live in Ontario and I feel REALLY BAD That all of these Canadians are going to lose their jobs. There will be serious repercussions for the entire economy in Ontario and Canada because of this. But not enough people are buying these trucks anymore, and GM just isn’t selling enough of anything to have another product added there. That’s just how it is! They’ll have to deal with it!
06/09, 10:19 AM
posted by:
Z06ified
Probably a mistake having the Camaro built in Canada. That’s about the only product GM really needs the CAW to build. Otherwise GM could go tell the CAW to go pound salt.