GM has temporarily shuttered its Delta Township plant in Michigan due to ongoing protests on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge.
According to The Detroit Free Press, GM was forced to cancel the second shift at its Lansing Delta Township plant on Wednesday due to parts shortages stemming from the bridge blockage, as well as the first shift on Thursday morning. GM spokesman Dan Flores told the Free Press the automaker is currently “working closely with our logistics providers to mitigate any potential impacts to our production and operations,” for the remainder of the week.
The Delta Township plant builds the Buick Enclave and Chevy Traverse crossovers. The facility, which spans 3.2 million square feet and sits on a 320-acre plot of land, employs roughly 2277 hourly workers and 244 salaried workers.
GM was able to keep its Flint Assembly plant open this week after it rerouted trucks from the Ambassador Bridge to another Michigan border entrance, UAW Local 598 Shop Chairman Eric Welter told the newspaper, though he expressed concern GM would be forced to idle the facility if the bridge blockade continues. The Flint plants builds the Chevy Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD heavy-duty pickups.
The trucker protest against pandemic mandates, which descended on the Canadian border city earlier this week, has hampered the free flow of traffic at the Ambassador Bridge and prevented trucks from crossing the border. The Windsor protest is an extension of a separate albeit related gathering in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, which initially began as a protest against a cross-border vaccine mandate for truckers. The protest has since transformed into a catch-all protest against various pandemic mandates and restrictions.
An automotive industry expert said earlier this week the Canadian automotive industry could sustain a two-day closure of the U.S.-Canada border before vehicle production would be heavily impacted. The protest blockade at the Ambassador Bridge has been in place since Sunday.
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Revoke CDLs and carrier numbers, see who’s bad then….
Now they costing people’s jobs.
Or you could look at it as the big companies push back on the overstepping government. Retract the bs mandates, and it all could end today!
Imagine a Sopranos episode with the crew shaking down a shopkeeper, Tony:” Or you could look at it as the big companies push back on the overstepping government”
: Paulie “Retract the bs mandates” Christopher : “it all could end today..”.
Now these truck thugs are blocking other northern states borders causing more economic damage. It’s time to send in something more than tow trucks…
You sound like a straight a tool, I bet you aren’t married and I bet you watch a ton of porn.
Yes the ones with your wife in them “Debbie does Mandingo”….
As said these thugs are now holding national security interest at stake, mobilize some National Guard/Royal Army Guard with heavy haul and construction equipment, Michigan state police/OPP, on both sides and wipe that bridge clean..
Oh no national security interests geez what will we do. We all should care a giant corporation is being effected lol. What a shill.
Good Luck , this is in Canada, NOT the USA.
Sure hopefully all truckers quit and people drive to get things on their own. I’d love to see how long people make it if all truckers quit.
Steve F
We’ll just order from Amazon. Their truckers barely make minimum wage. They can’t afford to go out on strike.
It’s not my concern who you order from.
Steve F
My apologies. Next time I use humor I’ll try and throw in a few racial slurs. So you right wingers will get the joke.
Right winger? I’ve never voted a day in my life lol. All of you political cucks are two faced. How can you say you should of thrown in a racial slur so right wingers get the joke when democrats started Jim Crow and the kkk? Delaware has some of the most restrictive voting regulations in the whole country and it’s a democrat run state and the presidents home state lol. Both sides point the finger at the other to justify why they are screwing over the country. We would be better off with all republicans and democrats put on a giant boat and let it float in the middle of the ocean.
Steve F.
You sound like a rightwinger. Maybe you got dropped on your head a bunch of times as a baby, and now you’re just stupid.
The year is 2022 not 1892. Everything about Jim Crow and the KKK is ancient history, and doesn’t reflect the platform or the make up of today’s Democratic Party.
BTW: Abraham Lincoln built the Railroads. Dwight D. Eisenhower built the highways. Teddy Roosevelt started the National Parks. Richard Nixon started the EPA. The word conservative comes from conservation. Seems like both parties are 180 degrees away from their past.
I’m the best VP of all time.
Heels up Harris
In 4 years, if your own party doesn’t try and kill you, you’re doing better then the last guy.
I’ve slept my way to the top they won’t kill me I can sleep my way out of anything.
You are playing right into the heretics hand. This is exactly what they want bickering amongst each other while they continue to spread their evil lies about their false prophets. This is exactly why I stress to people we must unite and eliminate god from out country once and for all. It’s time we come together and burn all the churches and knock every one of their false prophet statues over until we do this we will continue to be mislead. Don’t let the heretics fool you they are behind everything we must stop them.
During hurricane season! 🤣
Minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. Amazon pays regular warehouse workers $15 an hour truck drivers start at $22 and depending on how much experience you have you make even more so you are way way off. Also Amazon has no union the workers voted no, I’m not sure where you get your info but it’s wrong.
Kenny- by me McDonald’s starts people off at $15 an hour. Amazon warehouse workers make $18.
If you could find people in your area willing to work for $7.50 an hour you should move.
Even better, have new drivers from inter-cites like Detroit take their jobs….
You aren’t special nobody owes you anything. Whatever your parents told you growing up it’s a lie. What’s wrong with getting things yourself? Truck drivers are not in debt to you or anyone else. You need food water medicine you drive to the port and get it. If you have a family that is your responsibility to take care of them not someone else’s.
You would hang yourself if truckers didn’t deliver things to stores. You need them way more then they need you. What would be funny is if they all stopped driving for just 1 week, I can see it now people would barricade themselves inside their homes out of fear of others busting in shooting them dead for the petty food in their fridge. 🤣
None of this would be happening if we only kept god out of the USA and Canada. Citizens of both countries need to unite immediately and burn down all the heretics churches and knock over all their false prophet statues. If this happens the world will finally be at peace. We should hunt all Christian’s down and hang them immediately for the pedo they are. People need to wake up god is destroying both countries. Don’t listen to the false propaganda of the heretics.
Funny how when hardworking truckers, farmers and miners stage a peaceful protest with absolutely no property damage and governments and businesses including GMA mock, criticise and blame them for all their problems, but when a mob of Marxist descend on a city, loot, assault and destroy billions in property, shut down a city for several days, no word, nothing about the lives and livlyhoods lost. In fact many have shown solidarity with the looters and murders.
How about we side with freedom for once. If tyrant Trudeau would first off all, stop hiding and secondly let people live their lives in peace, we could all be happy doing our own business.
No damage? Peaceful? Surely you jest. At the very least, the economic fallout from this action is far more devastating than the other protests you mention. Also quite interesting that you selectively choose to look the other way at this lawbreaking behavior.
Over 90% of the truckers are already vaccinated, so this is much hue and cry for a very small percentage of them. I’m sure Vlad is rubbing his hands in glee at this anarchy.
Name what violence has occurred. You point out the problem exactly. 90% are already vaccinated, their standing together so that the other 10% don’t get ostracized for simply believing differently. This is the whole point of unions. To prevent the man from dividing and gaining power over the middle class. If anyone is to blame it’s Trudeau. He could have fixed the blockades last week…. But his power is more important I guess.
An Antifa lunatic ran down one of the protesters. Does that count?
But wait….those truckers have BOUNCY CASTLES in the street. Those terrorists!!!!! Throw them all in jail!!!!
@ Xerxes
You got a problem with it you get a CDL and drive.
Frank, that is beside the point. I respect truck drivers for the important work they do. But there are myriad requirements for many careers, getting a vaccination to protect yourself and others should not be a cause for irrational, disruptive protest. Meanwhile, I’ll hang to my Ph.D. in epidemiology and understand why this is so important for restoring normal life on the planet.
Sure you have a doctorate in epidemiology, but these folks are independent thinkers who did their own research (found a pixelated picture in a Facebook group called BIKERS 4 TRUMP/CHRIST that says to chug horse paste).
God isn’t real. Religious freaks are the absolute worst spreading the word of their fake holy book full of lies and deceit. Christians are nothing but kiddie ticklers. Keep god of out of the USA
@ Xerxes
since this has upset you so much just get a CDL we need strong people like you leading by example.
Respectfully, I’m not upset, just puzzled by those who embrace chaos as a governing philosophy. The fear of something that will keep us safe and help restore normal life just seems irrational to me. I honestly can’t help looking at things from a scientific perspective. But that doesn’t mean I disrespect truck drivers or other CDL holders, either. Had plenty of them doing fine work for me in my career, all good people.
Love the name xerxes was one of my favorites characters from 300. I wish we could get a spin-off movie with just him and his army.
A Ph.D in epidemiology might come in handy when trying to convince people to get a vaccine.
But it adds no weight to your opinion that a free, liberal society should abandon a person’s right to govern what happens to their body. No amount of education or research will make you a god or a king.
My interest is, of course, to dispense information that will keep people safe. Unfortunately, too many folks are swayed by suspect sources.
Regarding liberal society, there are many, many regulations that we follow for a variety of reasons. We shouldn’t just cherry pick those that we like vs. those that we don’t, especially when so many lives are at stake. As someone noted earlier, vaccine mandates have been in place for decades, with products that weren’t even tested as thoroughly as the COVID immunizations. This affects more than just the individual.
Burn down a courthouse in Portland and occupy the area for months – Hero.
Peacefully protest the government overstepping its authority – OMG YOU TERRORIST, YOU MUST BE STOPPED!!!!
That didn’t take long lol
I’m vaccinated and I got the booster. But I never dreamed that there would be vaccine passports or government imposed vaccine mandates for Covid. That was conspiracy theory nonsense barely 6 months ago. After all, what kind of authoritarian banana republic would impose something like that? It turns out Canada and the US…and to an even greater extent, Australia are all in that camp.
So I support any peaceful protest against vaccine mandates and mask mandates right now. My biggest issue is that at this point, the vaccines are much, much less impactful against prevalent variants. I can understand someone having the position that the risk of side effects from the vaccine is higher than the risk of an extended hospital stay (or worse) from the current variants. Especially if that person is younger, healthier, and has no known comorbidities (diabetes, obesity, smoker, pulmonary diseases).
With these quarantine restrictions in place, governors like mine didn’t really care about productivity anyways. Companies are constantly sending people home for 10-14 days after an exposure because that’s required from their state and local governments….or they have to stay home to watch their kids because of an exposure at their schools.
So they clearly don’t really care about lost productivity or supply chain issues caused by their nonsensical policies. They just don’t like their authority being questioned.
So I will say that the authoritarian progressive politicians can shove it. I support the truckers and anyone who is opposed to a mask or vaccine mandate. Go ahead and arrest them and make an example out of them. You can’t honestly call yourself a liberal and still have these positions, but we know that won’t stop you. You’ll only add to the ranks of the opposition with more mandates, more authoritarianism, and more crackdowns on protesters (including arresting them or misrepresenting them in the media); and by extension continue to lose your grip on your own authority. The correct response is to drop the mandates and let people live their lives.
There seems to be a lot of people who want this protest quashed. Lets do a social experiment. vote this comment up for its their right to protest. vote down if you want this squashed. again, vote up for Freedom, vote down for authoritarianism.
Somewhere along the lines, and I’m not sure when, key influential elements of the Democratic party abandoned liberalism and embraced authoritarianism.
It’s become obvious in the US over the course of this pandemic. You can even see how celebrated autocratic policies are by some of the posters in this thread.
Don’t need proof to vote, but sure as hell need proof to work, go on a plane, cruise and so on? Don’t need to get a shot to come in illegally, but you want a free trip within the U.S. that’s fine?
You are right. There is far less concern for preserving the integrity or restoring trust in the democratic process than there is of growing executive power and authoritarian leaders. And this is from people who refer to themselves as liberal with a straight face!
It’s like we are living in opposite world.
That’s the wierdest of things about this. The liberals used to all be about liberalism, you know, love everyone, stick it to the man, free to be who I wanna be. Now it’s, comply or be squashed. The old hippies like Howard Stern have completed 180’ed. If only thier early 20’s self could see them now.
Don’t get me started on establishment media and entertainment figures demanding that people who don’t share their entire world view be censored. The Stern of 20 years ago would constantly bash and ridicule the Stern of today.
This digital book burning is yet another progressive authoritarian demand that should be widely ridiculed.
You can’t be a liberal and be totally comfortable with big tech or media censorship (or any kind of censorship), especially in the cases when it’s openly endorsed by the White House.
No one is asking you to tune into every random youtube channel or podcast. You don’t have to listen if you don’t want. But you are out of line by demanding those voices be censored.
I’m not sure who taught you that you don’t have to be tolerant of other people or that you should try to control their speech, but they are wrong. That’s just more nonsense from the participation trophy generation. Adversity is a part of life. You will encounter people that don’t agree with you. You might even encounter some that legitimately offend you. A sign of real emotional and intellectual maturity is when we allow ourselves to consider other ideas and opinions in a way that might influence and reshape our own world views.
And also (speaking to the activist journalists out there ) – there is no such thing as ‘settled science’. You can’t just slip that term in there in an attempt to shut down opposition without jeopardizing your own credibility. In fact using that term in any debate around a rapidly evolving virus makes you look downright ridiculous. We should all be welcoming challenges to scientific theory and societal norms instead of trying to censor them.
Or you can just ignore all of this and abandon independent thought and liberalism completely. It’s not as if trust in our government or media could get any worse anyways.
It’s a misguided attempt to try and bring up a social divide… For one, you’re going to drive to the Capitol and argue with the federal government over what our essentially provincial mandates. So you’re arguing with the wrong government… Then you’re going to hold the border hostage which is only going to affect regular Canadians who don’t have any money. Politicians are sitting there laughing drinking Mai ties while these guys waste their time and their fuel and their money…. losers need to crack a book….. Learn some history and learn how politics work
Must be nice to have the time to waste……..go home and let people who want to work work… let’s call it like it is you guys are just scared…you all say “I’m not afraid of the virus” but you’re terrified of the shot…well guess what… scared is scared….
A bit*h is a bit*h…and that’s all you are….
Grow some balls and get back to work…. you’re grand dad’s would be sick with your childish BS….
Canadian trump-billies.