Tag: Ingersoll
Auto belt anxiety: Lessons from past upheavals in Southwestern Ontario
From EV investment booms to painful plant closures, history offers cautions.
Auto belt anxiety: Laid-off workers weigh hang-in or move-on options
GM bet on an electric future for its now-idled Ingersoll plant. How to plug their lives back in is the question for 1,100 laid-off workers.
Federal loans boost three regional manufacturers as Cami plant sits idle
FedDev Ontario, the federal economic development agency, is providing $5 million in loans to three area manufacturers.
Auto belt anxiety: One big London-area layoff, many charity questions
To the small-town hospital in Ingersoll, home to the auto assembly plant that had employed most of its members, the union local donated $10,000. Another $5,000, it gave to an inter-faith charity that helps the needy in the Southwestern Ontario community, including with Christmas hampers. The same amount it shared with Stronger Together Ingersoll Community […]
Auto belt anxiety: The EV that left 1,100 London-area workers in limbo
GM’s new electric cargo van was supposed to be its Ingersoll factory’s salvation. Instead, it left the Cami plant idled. Why didn’t it sell?