General Motors will add 60,000 cars and trucks to its North American production schedule, and reinstate 1,350 jobs The new cars will be produced during Q3 and Q4, at plants in Ontario, Canada and Lordstown, Ohio. The company says demand is up for the Chevy Cobalt compact car and the Chevy HHR retro-styled compact station wagon. General Motors [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia’s SunTrust Banks has signed a 10-year deal with Toronto, Ontario’s Symcor, to handle check & payment processing and statement generation. As a result, SunTrust will lose 1,554 positions; but the Canadian firm will take over 1,500 of the workers. Fifty-four workers will lose their jobs. The layoffs and transfers will affect 5% of SunTrust’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
Electro-Motive Diesel has informed 347 workers at its LaGrange, Illinois plant that they will lose their jobs in April. The locomotive manufacturer has operations in London, Ontario as well as in La Grange. The Canadian Auto Workers union announced in late January that Electro-Motive’s Ontario plant will cut about 600 out of 900 hourly positions. Electro-Motive Diesel, formerly [...]
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