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| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
By Jessica Verge and Courtney Duffett The Oshawa Express General Motors workers are ready to protest the closure of Oshawa’s truck plant until served with an injunction. The Canadian Auto Workers Local 222 union members have been standing guard outside the company’s Colonel Sam Drive headquarters for more than a week, drawing attention from labour leaders, politicians and national media. But GM Canada confirmed Monday they would be seeking legal action in a bid to end the blockade, adding that some vehicle production was lost this past Saturday as a result of the protest. Protestors are fighting to save some 2,600 jobs that will be lost when the truck plant closes in 2009. “I’m fighting for my job and to make a point that we’re not going to take this anymore,” says Amanda Wright, a car plant employee for the past six years. |
It’s not the first time Wright has been faced
with job loss. Her husband, who’s been on the line
at GM for 17 years, came to Oshawa after the
Scarborough van plant was shut down. “We’re very nervous,” she says, adding that
she’s been at the protest site for 12 hours a day
since it started. “We’re talking
about what to do after this,
whether we are going to go
back to school and we are
thankful we don’t have any
children.”
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