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General Motors strike in U.S. forcing Canada plants to close

OTTAWA -- A strike at General Motors in the United States has forced one assembly plant in Canada to close, and four more are expected to close in the coming days, the Canadian Auto Workers union said Monday.

“It’s not inconceivable that by the end of this week, we could have anywhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people unemployed, mostly in Ontario, some in Quebec as a result of a dispute between General Motors and the United Auto Workers in the United States,” CAW president Buzz Hargrove told reporters.

The CAW is the largest private sector union in Canada. GM employs about 19,000 people here and its plants are key parts suppliers to American facilities, and vice versa.

About 50 percent of GM auto parts are manufactured in Canada.

The company has three assembly plants — one truck, two car — in Oshawa, Ontario, a transmission plant in Windsor, and an engine and transmission plant in St. Catherines.

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