About 1,200 General Motors employees at the company’s assembly plant in Oshawa have been temporarily laid off because of a strike in the US.
The employees, who work on the Oshawa truck line, will still receive full wages while the strike by more than 49,000 GM workers in the U-S continues.
Unifor president Jerry Dias says he expects the second line at the Oshawa plant to also be disrupted as early as today because of a lack of parts from the U-S.
Dias says he expects about two-thirds of GM’s Cami plant in Ingersoll to shut down by early next week because of the strike while its St. Catharines operation could be hit by the middle of next week.
Workers at the other plants will still be compensated but not as fully as the Oshawa ones.
