GM says plant’s temporary closure due to market
Hi, Verity here, working on your afternoon live updates. My colleague Alessio Donnini is reporting more details about the GM plant shutdown in Ingersoll, Ont., which is causing hundreds of layoffs.
The General Motors CAMI Assembly plant will shut down next month with plans to reopen in the fall at half capacity.
The company said in a statement today that production is coming to a halt as a direct result of the market.
The CAMI plant employs approximately 1,200 workers. The union said today that layoffs will start Monday, with some production continuing into May. After that, production will stop until October.
Once production resumes, it will only be with one shift “for the foreseeable future,” the statement said, leading to the layoff of 500 workers.
Two models of the BrightDrop Zevo electric delivery vehicle are made on site, and sales have lagged behind the competition with numbers released by GM showing a total of 427 vehicles sold in Canada in 2024, and 1,529 in the United States.
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