http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/31/news...vity/index.htm

Is this plant no reopening later on?

 

Osh 2 is going to be merged with Osh 1 as a large flex manufacturing facility.

Also, the same people who working at #2 will likely be working at the new facility.

Finally, even though Osh 2 is an award winning facility, the new Osh plant will be far and away even better still.

I wonder if the writer of that article knows any of this.

 

Headline makes it sound like GM is just shooting itself in the foot.

 

Its a horribly written piece.

 

C'mon Guy! It wouldn't be as near an entertaining read if that was mentioned!

They jumped to conclusions and there was not a GM rep immediately available to explain.

 

see media bias...


j/k well sort of..lol

 

Here's a better writeup of the story

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...706010373/1014

 

Yeah, there are 2 (well, actually 3 or 4! ) different GM plants in Oshawa . Two build cars, one builds trucks, and there's a battery plant too.

The car plants, #1 and #2, while they are currently run seperately, are going to be merged under one "umbrella". However, in the interim, #2 is being shut-down so they can start to convert over to the flex line, then #1 will be taken down later on and converted, and eventually the entire plant will be one giant flex plant. Unfortunately, even though I know a couple people who work there, I really don't get much "insider info" ... A) because even the EMPLOYEES don't get much info (kind of like how dealership salesmen know little to nothing about cars ) and B) I'm sure the guys can only share so much info, so as to avoid the dreaded "black Suburbans" .