Sunday, November 18, 2018
While good jobs are essential to our greater economy, they are critical to local communities where those good jobs spawn related businesses, and feed broader goods and service sector employment.
AMAPCEO stands in solidarity with its good friends at Unifor as they represent the 2,500 local workers who have been job threatened by General Motors’ decision not to manufacture products at their Oshawa facility – where the Oshawa and greater Durham community has supported the car maker for some 80 years.
The reverberation of this decision will wash over many smaller businesses and impact communities province-wide.
All too often, when good jobs are lost, they are lost forever, only to be replaced by non-unionized service sector jobs with less stability, minimum wage salaries and few, if any, benefits. It is vital that all levels of government work together to find solutions that keep good jobs in our communities. And, it is inherent that government recognize that in times of economic uncertainty, the efforts of Ontario’s public services are even more important to its citizens.
Read Unifor’s article on ‘The Economic Impact of the GM Operations in Oshawa’.
Dave Bulmer
President