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        home > news > Automakers > Unifor Puts Pressure on GM in New Advertising Campaign

        Unifor Puts Pressure on GM in New Advertising Campaign

        Ads have a pointed message for the company.

        Joseph Szczesny
        Joseph Szczesny , Executive Editor
        Jan. 02, 2019
        Unifor President Jerry Dias said the new advertising campaign is designed to get GM to change its mind about the Oshawa, Ontario plant.

        Unifor, the union representing autoworkers in Canada, has launched an advertising campaign attacking General Motors’ decision to shutter plants and idle workers.

        Jerry Dias, Unifor president, the successor to the old CAW, hase advertising campaign objective is to force GM to reconsider the decision to idle an assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, on an industrial site with a history of vehicle building stretching back more than 100 years.

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        The Unifor ads are scheduled to appear in Canada and the U.S. and appeared even as GM was airing an expensive advertising campaign during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays that featured GM “employees,” touting Chevrolets.

        The Unifor ads that have appeared carried a pointed message. One of the ads attacking GM’s plants, which took up a full-page in a print edition of the Detroit News during noted, “When GM needed it most American and Canadians were there with a $61 billion bailout. When GM puts cars and trucks up for sale American and Canadian consumers step up and buy 3.3 million each year.

        The end of Unifor's television commercial has a rather pointed message.

        (GM listens to Unifor proposals about Canadian plant. Click Here for the story.)

        “Now that GM is profitable they want to closes plants in the U.S. and Canada while expending in Mexico. Hey GM, you want to sell here? Build here,” the Unifor advertisement said, echoing a long-standing complaint from unions in both Canada and the United States.

        In 2017, Unifor staged a 30-day strike at a key GM assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, after the automaker shifted some crossover production to Mexico.

        (Click Here for more about Senators pressuring GM to halt $14B stock buyback plan.)

        Unifor hasn’t put a price tag on its advertising campaign but it also has linked up with the United Auto Workers in the United States to mount a letter-writing campaign aimed at pressuring GM on the plant-related decisions.

        GM is closing three plants in the U.S. and Canada, including its Oshawa, Ontario facility as it transforms its manufacturing footprint.

        GM’s decisions to shut plants in the Michigan, Ohio and Maryland also brought angry tweets from President Donald Trump and complaints from both Democratic and Republican Congressmen.

        (To see more about Mary Barra’s radical reshaping of General Motors, Click Here.)

        GM is feeling the heat, promising to reply next week to Unifor proposals to save the threatened Oshawa plant. In addition, GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra has said she would offer more information to investors about GM’s future plans during a presentation that is also scheduled for next week.

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        One response to “Unifor Puts Pressure on GM in New Advertising Campaign”

        1. RANDY QUENNEVILLE says:
          January 12, 2019 at 12:06 pm

          I and my family have been gm owners and will never buy another gm again if they go trough with this

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