General Motors and Unifor members employed at the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, remain far apart on issues surrounding job security, but talks are expected to resume today.
The Globe and Mail reports both sides will once again sit down for formal negotiations to work out a new labor contract. For both parties, stakes are high. The strike has hit local business and the economy hard, and General Motors is quickly running short on supplies of 2018 Chevrolet Equinox. GM builds the 2018 Equinox at two Mexican factories, but neither produce the numbers CAMI is responsible for. According to an earlier report, GM has a 41-day supply of Equinoxes before the well runs dry.
Ontario Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid told reports he met with both Unifor and GM and urged the two sides to reach an agreement soon. He also said neither side requested government assistance in working out a new contract and supporting future manufacturing.
GM’s most recent offer was dismissed as fluff by Unifor President Jerry Dias. Unifor Local 88 made their demands clear shortly after the strike began. In order to ensure more jobs are not shipped to Mexico, CAMI must be named the lead Chevrolet Equinox production plant.
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Over the weekend, I noticed not seeing Chevrolet Equinox commercials while the GMC Terrain appeared more as this might be a strategy of General Motors to try getting CUV customers to buy the GMC Terrain instead of the Chevrolet Equinox which inventory is under 40 days.
I’ve also noticed that, it’s very prominent on YouTube ads. Very smart of GM. They clearly will not settle with Union nonsense since they refuse to give in to the Union’s demand of being the lead facility. The plan may just be to fully shift Chevrolet Equinox production from Canada to Mexico. I can see it happing as soon as next year too.
Dumb union as more production will be shifted away from Canada to Mexico and China where they dont have these issues. Canadian car manufacturing is on its last breath and the Canadian unions are putting the final nail in the coffin.
Love Mexico now, union stooges?
Unifor and CAMI are either the must trusting people or are just dumb as sin because no one said a word prior to General Motors began to move production of the GMC Terrain production to Mexico as it was all a surprise with it might now being too late as General Motors’ Chevrolet Ramos Arizpe facility is dedicating two shifts, six days a week, to build 34 Equinox CUV each hour for about 408 per day which is still less than half of the 850 CAMI has a capacity of building while a third shift could increase production at Ramos Arizpe to 612 Equinox vehicles per day and this is possibly why General Motors isn’t frantic despite their dwindling inventory.
How long does GM have to wait before it can close the CAMI facility with no backlash from the Canadian government?
Time to tell our friends up North goodbye eh!