General Motors has been granted a court injunction, or restraining order, against a former worker after the ex-employee allegedly attempted to enter the GM Oshawa plant in Canada several times over the past few months.
According to a report by OHS Canada, the man was originally hired by The Staffing Connection, an agency that provides workers to TFT Global, who then handles materials for GM. Due to reports of sexual harrassment, the former employee was terminated in September 2022.
However, since being let go, the ex-worker has attempted to enter the Oshawa plant 11 times, and was sometimes successful. During his first successful attempt to gain entry into the manufacturing plant, the former employee cornered a woman in the lunch room, and demanded to see his former manager. From there, he began participating in altercations with security, which included injuring one guard and threatening another.
In response to these disputes, GM assigned four extra guards during shift changes. In its ruling, the court noting that General Motors is responsible for ensuring a safe work environment for all its employees, and that previous attempts to prevent the ex-employee from entering the plant had failed.
“None of the actions taken by GM or the police have stopped the defendant from his persistent behavior, which he has shown can escalate to overt aggression,” the court said. “The ongoing risk associated with his behavior is a repetition of assaults, threats, physical injury and trespass, all of which are non-compensable. It is the intention of the court that this order provide the police with all necessary authority to protect GM’s property, employees and third-party contractors from the defendant before his behavior further escalates.”
It’s worth noting that police told General Motors that they were unable to take more aggressive action against the man until the restraining order was administered. Additionally, the injunction will remain in effect until is it amended or terminated by court.
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This seems strange, but it is Canada. I can’t picture not getting arrested the first time if that happened in the US. You’d be lucky if you weren’t tased for good measure too.
We had a issue with a woman accusing several men of sexual harassment, These men were read the riot act, But later it was found the woman was flat out nuts, All these accusations were separate and false, She was fired.
As an employee I would be very vigilant incase this nutcase sneaks in again and harms again.
Why in the world are they even posting this? What is this going to be future constraints on vehicles or something my goodness they should keep that in house get the police there and have better security. We definitely live in crazy times.
Canada and the US NEED A TRAIN STATION
Situations with employees that have emotional or mental issues happen often, especially in a facility with thousands of employees. These kinds of issues are usually dealt with, in house, without involving the police. This particular issue probably got leaked out because someone saw a police car outside and wanted to find out why. When he/she found out why, they probably called the local media for the news tip. My guess is, it was a slow news day. Aside from this incident, it is well known that Canada builds the best quality cars in the world.
“it is well known that Canada builds the best quality cars in the world.”
Yes, that’s why you need to tell everyone and their response is, “Really? I’ve never heard that before.”
Then you should ask them, “which country in your opinion builds the best quality cars?” Any car expert should tell you that it’s Canada. If not, then they are misinformed.
Unfortunately, they’re building trucks LOL!
I worked here. This place is run horribly and all these workers hate being there but they dont have much options for work in durham region. Almost all the people I spoke to said the same thing. Regardless of the shift. You pay union dues and the GM workers think they can talk to you however and your rep just tells you to keep your head down and push through. Lot of code of conduct violations. Very unprofessional. No one there is happy. When I first started people would tell me watch out for GM workers. They’ll talk about you for no reason and blame you. Gm workers and tft dont get along at all. Horrible work environment. Direct gm employees are the problem. They have a grudge against GM and take out their frustrations on the agency workers. You have to just listen even if they mistaken you for someone else doing something wrong. You just get blamed cause they dont want to upset the GM workers or do their due diligence as a supervisor. Supervisor what a joke title for these guys. They’re barely that. The tft supervisors are scared of GM workers. How pathetic is it to be scared of regular workers with very basic skills that you can teach a one year old monkey.
Sounds like Damian has a big ol’ Kosher pickle up his @ss. I worked there for 31 years, retired in 2016. Ya it was hard work, time sensitive and production minded mentality, but that’s what you expect for $35 an hour. Not sure how it is now but workers and supervisors had a decent amount of respect for one another. Closed the truck plant in 2009 and saw the Camaro make its way to the Alpha platform to the U.S. in 2016. The baffling part about this story is WHY in the hell does this person want to go back in. The day I made the retirement walk down the pedestrian bridge across Park Road was like walking through the Pearly Gates! Never even looked back.
It kind of sounds like he thought people like you were the ones making it a terrible place to work.
I agree totally. I just wished I stayed there a few more years. But there was no indication of a future there when they closed in 2019. I didn’t feel the need to get out of there like some people did, because I enjoyed working there.
My husband work for G.M he was 34 years he made good money and benefits he work 2 second shift its hard work but he work a lot overtime yes he walk the thru the pearly gate in 1999 I ask him if he misses work he said he misses the money not the work
My experience working there is the total opposite of yours. The employees and supervisors that I had were very respectful and very easy to get along with. I worked with many different groups there, and I made a lot of good friends. On many occasions we gathered outside of work for lunch and dinner as a group. On another occasion our whole section of employees decided to take a trip together to attend a Blue Jay’s game at Roger’s Centre. No workplace is always peaches and cream, but to me, it was an awesome place to work.
Hey Damien, science has proven that monkeys don’t have the mental capacity or physical dexterity as most humans. There were actually 6 different species of humans in world, but only our kind survived because we were stronger and smarter than all the others.
who are these other workers you are talking about are they permit workers threw the union the non gm employees
Union workers are always more miserable. It’s very strange.
I worked at GM for over 23 years…I took the buyout in 2019. I must say it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. The environment is racist and run by suspected White Supremacist.
Any non-white person working there if honesty with themselves know exactly what I mean.
The subject of a person who needs emotional help and went to extreme lengths to gain access to GM for their own personnel agenda has gotten lost in these posts.
As for your comments on a different subject that has nothing to do with this persons actions , I personally know over a hundred people in GM who are happy people who appreciate and respect their employer, their jobs and fellow team members.
During the late ‘90s and early 2000s the Oshawa assembly plants were downsizing their workforce but maintaining production levels. It became increasingly difficult to get any time off. Our union and the company agreed to TPT workers. They filled in on Wednesdays to Mondays. They were a Godsend for us. We embraced them because it solved our time off situation plus it saved GM a crap load of $. GM was pounding the overtime at us then so having a Saturday off once in a while was great. Apparently they’re called TFTs now. One of our TPT workers was studying to be an EMS worker, but he was working Wednesday to Monday almost every week. He said he was making more at GM than he would at EMS!! It was a win/win for everyone.
That’s funny Chris, because there were a couple of part time workers that were working more hours than some full time workers. We were laughing about it at the time. Ridiculous but funny.