Half Of GM’s Oshawa Plant Workforce Are Women
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When GM restarted the production line at its Oshawa Assembly plant in southern Ontario last year, the automaker saw an opportunity to hire a more diverse group of candidates for the 1,200 jobs it had open.
As a result of these more inclusive hiring practices, roughly half of the 1,200-person workforce at Oshawa Assembly are women, according to a report from Automotive News.
Christopher Thomson, human resources and labour relations director at Oshawa Assembly, told the publication the automaker “very deliberately” used media materials and testimonials from female GM employees when advertising the open positions at Oshawa Assembly on social media and elsewhere. Thomson said GM jumped at the opportunity to hire more women to the Oshawa Assembly workforce, as it’s “certainly not an opportunity you get very often,” in the automotive industry.
“Automotive manufacturing has typically been male-dominated in the perception,” Thomson told Automotive News.
GM invested $1.3 billion into the Oshawa site to prepare it to produce both the Chevy Silverado HD and Chevy Silverado 1500. Renovation work began in late 2020 and was complete before the end of 2021 – marking one of the fastest plant turnarounds in the automaker’s history. Before pickup production began there, GM produced the Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac XTS sedans. The plant was shuttered at the end of 2019 after GM decided to discontinue these two model lines.
Muriel Matthews, one of the women employees that were recently hired on to the GM Oshawa Assembly workforce, said there was a sigh of relief within the Oshawa community when news began circulating of the plant’s reopening.
The first 2022 Chevy Silverado HD built at the Oshawa facility rolled off the production line in early November. The plant is only building the Silverado HD at the moment, with light-duty truck production set to commence later this year.
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And I’m assuming their also half minorities as well? Can we sue GM for the rampant suicide rate amongst white males who can’t get a job because their skin color or cause the don’t have a va@@@@? This is also probably the reason for GM’s quality issues, when you hire mostly women and minorities from a candidate pool of 90% make, mostly white (this is Canada after all) and you choose based of physical characteristics instead of talent (didn’t we have a movement against thant in the 60’s?) Your going to have quality issues.
Thanks woke great reset tyrants.
Jake
You sound way too stupid to work around heavy machinery. Maybe a career in the janitorial field will be more your speed.
Nah a woman would steal that intellectual job from him too
2 things, woman worked the factories that the men were absent from in WW2, another is many advances in automation made plenty of jobs easier in turn more women would apply. Did GM Canada have a quota or it was just many women in the area that applied?.
The reason the men were absent is because they were overseas on the receiving end of a bullet
I thought because the men was “woke”?… The point is women can do the job if no men are available..
It’s always fun reading comments from the resident troll. Peter G the biggest stupidest troll on the website.
Mark
I’m fully vaccinated, boosted and I never supported Trump. Which means I’m in the top half of Americans intelligence wise.
Let me take you out of the asylum and see who wrong that is
Jake
The vaccines work, and Trump should be in prison.
Anything that goes against those 2 facts is a lie.
Going back to when the Trump grandfather emigrated from Germany, the family business has been to screw the government. All Trumps should have been in jail a long time ago.
Cry more
You are the biggest troll on the website lol. You got worried when your comment went to moderation so you started using the name dick instead until you felt you wouldn’t get banned so stop it.
@ Peter
I’m willing to be that for some strange reason nobody on this website cares if you are vaccinated or not.
Maybe you incel lads should get an education or a marketable skill instead of
whining about your sad lot in life !
Jake, where did race come up in this brief?— “(YOU ASSUMING)” that is one of the problems
You sound like you’ve hit the convergence beyond stupidity. There are more than enough white males working at the Oshawa plant. Most of the team leaders and managers are white males so what point are you really trying to make. I believe the statistics are 50/50 male to female and out of that 50% of males half are minority males and this also applies to females. Out of the 50% females in the company half that are minority women. I work there I’ve witnessed all of GM workforce.
How about all the kids left to be raised in day care rather than by their mothers?
i think most women are very loyal, hard working, you may find one now and then that might slack but for the most part they are great
Personally, I believe that we should use this same approach when hiring doctors and surgeons. Who cares about their credentials, I just want them to have particular physical characteristics. It seems logical to me.
Cuckoo.
Doesn’t take much to do robot assisted assembly. In no way comparable to a doctor!
Of course it not comparable. It is repetitious work that could be done by an orangutan.
My point is, why not simply hire the most qualified people for the job, regardless of their skin color, gender, etc.? Would you choose your heart surgeon because of his/her height and hair color, or because he/she graduated in the top 1% of their medical class? This isn’t difficult.
Because most people working an assembly line start with no formal training and get it on the job. So most qualified basically means you can show up on time and not pee yourself
If you’re happy with companies hiring people based on their physical characteristics, rather than their credentials, that is certainly your choice. Best of luck to you.
There are no credentials. Which is why it’s not comparable to a doctor, as previously stated. If I could, I would draw you a picture.
It seems that you are intellectually incapable of digesting my comments and you’re simply here to fight and look foolish.
Yes, there are credentials. If someone has a prior history of habitually missing time at work, getting into fights on the job, has a prison record, etc., etc., etc., would you hire them over someone that has a clean record and also has experience working on an assembly line? For the last time, this isn’t tough.
You’re making up scenarios that don’t exist given the context. You don’t hire the man, or woman, who is getting in fights, that goes for both sexes. You’re original point about “most qualified.. doctor” is a load of crap. Keep trying to dig out. It seems logical to me. Cuckoo.
I’m going to graciously bow out and permit you to get back to work. Those burgers aren’t going to flip themselves.
You teenagers crack me up sometimes. Please try to enjoy the rest of your weekend and go fight with someone else.
Lol assumptions of a moron.
@ Raymes
Don’t argue with anyone not using their real name they are just a troll.
No, but I would insist on a proctologist with a good manicure.
“My point is, why not simply hire the most qualified people for the job, regardless of their skin color, gender, etc.? ”
Maybe because you have some agency or ministry watching your employee rosters like hawks, ready to write stiff fines over not enough females, not enough blacks, not enough this, not enough that,
You think there’s no quotas for med school matriculants? Seriously? It’s been a long time since
I try and seek out doctors who are quick with the prescription pad. I don’t care about their gender or skin color.
I’m sure you do that’s a benefit of your white privilege
Well, well the white males thank they know how it feels when they are judged by the color of there skin. I don’t think the quality issue is because of the women that work there it’s with the w—- males that is still n charge.
Sexism @ it’s worst!
Union is to blame as well as GM management.
Hire people by their ability & attitude, works out well for most employers!
With the pisspoor quality I have seen on GM vehicles (Yes, I do work on them) I can honestly say I will never-ever buy a GM product again.
My 2.5 cents worth.
What % of the secretaries are males? How about the accounting department?
I work at GM. They’ll all (women) be out on sick leave anyway. They’re always out on sick leave
Variation on that theme: when a navy ship is getting ready to deploy, a large percentage of the females are suddenly pregnant.
Their body, their choice, right? At least that’s what they say when the topic is abortion
Just unbelievable the hatred of women in these comments. It’s 2020 guys, get over it.
Unfortunately, the internet provides people with a vehicle to anonymously post imbecilic (and sometimes vile) comments.
Personally, I couldn’t less if a person has blue skin, pink hair and identifies as an upright vacuum cleaner. If he/she has impeccable credentials…hire them.
Unfortunately the internet provides people the ability to use fake names to.
that’s true Wilfred as i know you are the wimp across the street from me
It’s ignorance and intellect. Those same people bashing are the ones who will crack another discount beer and sit down believing they are right.
You think you are high and mighty for a trashy trump supporter.
Trump supporter?! Wtf shut up. It’s most likely Trumplestiltskin supporters that are doing the woman bahsing here
Go put your trump train flag back on your truck and do burnouts clown.
so gerald you think plugs the moron biden is dpong a good job? the old geezer can’t tie his own shoes without help
I can’t understand you speak English next time.
Trump = trash period
Gerald= woke moron, likrly a brown-eye nandit
@Paul
Sorry it’s 2022 idiot not 2020
Typo, but you get the point.
No I don’t because I stay in the present I don’t stress the past.
We’ll some have to work the cafeteria
This offends me because I’m soft.
Anyone who gets offended over things complete random strangers say on the internet that you will never meet us soft which is almost every single person in this comment section.
WHAT? THIS IS RACIST ! ! ! ! I work for BLM
BURN LOOT MURDER
Wow!
loosen up – recognize humor
I cannot talk about the situation at GM, but I can state from experience that Toyota’s North American manufacturing operations actively discriminated against white males in hiring and promotion. I worked as a Senior Internal Auditor at Toyota’s North America’s manufacturing operation for 11 years and was therefore well position to see Toyota’s manufacturing operations in the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico. The Controller at Toyota’s West Virginia powertrain plant stated that she tried to promote a very compete white male Senior Accountant to Accounting Manager but could not because HR told her to fill the position with a female. This Senior Accountant was the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance lead for Toyota’s West Virginia plant so I worked very closely with him while performing Sarbanes-Oxley audits over several years. This Senior Accountant was a very competent CPA, he was given many important special projects like Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, was a hard worker, and had very good people skills, and was universally like by everyone but was passed over. The white female who got the Accounting Manager position did not seem to be in the same league. In just a couple of years this white female was promoted again to Controller of Toyota’s Huntsville, Alabama powertrain plant. I overheard many Diversity Department phone conversations because Toyota had an open office work environment and my workstation was right next to them. I remember one conversation where a diversity associate browbeat a Cambridge, Ontario plant HR associate over Cambridge HR not doing nearly enough to hire and promote from the LBGTQ community. These were not isolated incidents at Toyota, these types of things happened all the time.
I also witnessed these internal decisions in a telecommunication/data/cyber security, and many other services we offered in a customer management services organization in this extremely large Corportation when the US CEO retired. A Swedish CEO is now in place… Many experienced/smart people were passed up for diversity reasons which are far less competent which burden the competent other employees and departments to pick up their slack in this multibillion-dollar corporation. These were not rookies, they were “experienced” diversed employees. I think corporations gave them the best reference to get rid of them… When your survivability depends on monthly sales and the best engineering designs and products in a very competitive market, to watch inferior designs and expertise having to be QA’d every time from these diverse employees with employees that know their stuff was too much. Yet the corporation continued despite the quality and expertise decline in a rapid market to stay ahead of the tech future. Mind you, several training internal classes and vendor training classes were provided on a weekly basis, and yet we struggled with these new narratives of diversity. It’s a shame having to pass up qualified folks to hire based on color or gender. Come review time, no issues with the reviews, as we believed they were just fine collecting a highly competitive paycheck… I got to a point it started affecting my conscious, I ended up retiring. I told my boss at the time about my feelings since we took a lot of pride in our work to win bids over the other guys, and under his breath, he agreed. Directives from the top… Sad to see this happen.
These women are tough as nails. They play hockey and have missing teeth.
My dream of owning a silverado made in canada by a harem is one step closer to reality.
Nice to see. I have worked with men and women. If the person shows up to work and gets the job done shouldn’t matter who they are. There is alot of very successful women out in the work force. Keep building those trucks !! GO OSHAWA GO !!
Hope they don’t over-torque the nuts.
Only the feminists…
Holy cow,!!! You most likely could never afford to buy one of these trucks!!! Jealousy will get you nowhere!!! Women rule, so suck it up princess!!!
Gee, maybe you can explain why ALL 18 year old males are REQUIRED to register with The Selective Service yet females are exempt (with no complaints from women). Males that aren’t registered are ineligible for federal student loans. Women went to court to be allowed to attend the nation’s military colleges and to be hired as police officers and firefighters. Any white male that would serve this country needs to have his head examined
Great! I love it! Women are half of humanity and the sole creators of nrw life.
Hey, all you male chauvinists! Have you forgotten that it was a woman who created you and nurtured you?
Found the beta male.
Found the misogynist douchebag loser of a PIG who feels fearful and insecure.🐷🐽🐖
Nobody uses emojis on here go back to Reddit.
You meant that comment for someone else I’m not a cop. Cops = pigs. Hope this helps you in the future.
Wtf is wrong with women assembling trucks? Nothing.. if anything the quality will only go up.. make us real men proud, ladies ,and GO GM!!!
I think it’s because the pay is so low now! I know a guy driving forklift who is getting $21.00 per hour!