GM Closing Oshawa Consolidated Line, Equinox And Impala Production Moving To United States

General Motors will announce tomorrow that their consolidated line at Oshawa, currently building both the Chevrolet Equinox and Chevrolet Impala, will close. 2,000 of the 4,000 jobs at the Oshawa plant are located at the consolidated factory, and GM apparently won't be re-investing in the facility. Under the new plan, GM would move Chevrolet Impala production to the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, and any overflow production would not return to the Oshawa "flex line" because the 2014 Impala is a "different body style". The Equinox will likely move to Spring Hill, TN A report by a local media outlet quoted CAW Local 222 President Chris Buckley as stating that Impala production would be split between Michigan and a plant in Alabama, but no GM plants in the South come to mind. Buckley is also quoted as saying that the UAW agreed to be more flexible with their contract in a bid to bring more vehicle production to the USA. Although TTAC often gets accused of anti-GM, anti-Union bias, its a sad day when 2,000 hard working GM employees get caught in the midst of corporate politics, and one of GM's best plans, which has won accolades for the high quality of its vehicles, will end up shuttered permanently. No official announcement has been made, but we'll be keeping an eye out.   from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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