TORONTO – The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ruled that members of Unifor engaged in unlawful strikes in their efforts to protest the planned closure of the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. The ruling, dated Feb. 22 and posted by Unifor late Monday, orders the union and its members including president Jerry Dias[…]
They are the unsung heroes in the community that don’t always get the headlines. On Friday, students past and present who crossed Olive Avenue and Grandview Street in Oshawa said thank you. Rose McIntosh has been a crossing guard at the intersection for three decades and Friday was her last day on the job. For the past 33-and-a-half[…]
Inteva Products employees working at the Whitby, Ont., facility protested outside the company’s building Tuesday in hopes General Motors will “reverse” its decision to close the Oshawa plant by December. They say they fear the closure may mean they’ll lose their jobs, as Inteva supplies products to the Oshawa plant. Source link
Greg Moffatt, the plant chair representing Unifor workers, said employees would be back on the job Wednesday after they walked out Tuesday following General Motors announcement it was moving forward with its plans to close the facility in Oshawa. Source link
Unionized workers at the General Motors Oshawa Assembly Plant have walked off the job, hours after the company reaffirmed its plans to shut down the facility by the end of the year. “The workers were so upset they couldn’t work. They couldn’t believe that General Motors had announced that all their hard work was going[…]