G.M. Transmission Plant Announces Closure

The Windsor GM plant is closing in 2010, because General Motors has no new product for the plant. 1,400 employees will be put out of work as a result.

The Windsor Star (May 13) reports, "GM Canada told its Windsor employees last month that the company would no longer produce the automatic four-speed transmission they assemble after mid 2010. But there was no word then about the plant's future.
Most of the area's politicians have spent the last 18 months urging GM to find a new product for the Windsor plant and pledging assistance. But the decision to close the factory came down suddenly and without any recourse, MPP Sandra Pupatello (L -- Windsor West) said.
"The finality of it is the only thing I'm taken aback by," said the minister for economic developmet and trade. "They've told me all along they don't have a product."
With GM downsizing all of its North American operations, from assembly plants to component plants producing engines and transmissions, many of the company's workforces on the bubble of closure had been fighting for a share of a diminishing pie."


With this plant closure comes the end of CAW Local 1973
Another sad day for Windsor