Take the Plant, Save the Planet

On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which was in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly operations by the end of 2019. ...This pamphlet provides background material on Oshawa and joins Green Jobs Oshawa in encouraging workers elsewhere to prepare now for the threats to their jobs and productive capacity that will inevitably come. --From introduction. Contents: Introduction: Realizing ‘Just Transitions’: The Struggle for Plant Conversion at GM Oshawa -- Mission Statement of Green Jobs Oshawa -- Unifor Settlement with GM – Footprint or Toe Tag? / Tony Leah -- GM Oshawa: Lowered Expectations Unexplored Opportunities; The GM Strike and the Historical Convergence of Possibilities / Sam Gindin -- Bringing SNC-Lavalin to Mind During an Uninspiring Federal Election / Leo Panitch -- Take It Over: The Struggle for Green Production in Oshawa / Linda McQuaig -- Green Jobs Oshawa and a Just Transition / Rebecca Keetch -- Why GM’s Oshawa Assembly Line Shutdown is a Black Eye for Unifor’s Jerry Dias / Jennifer Wells -- Appendix: Feasibility Study for the Green Conversion of the GM Oshawa Facility: Possibilities for Sustainable Community Wealth: Summary Overview / Russ Christianson. Contents: Introduction: Realizing ‘Just Transitions’: The Struggle for Plant Conversion at GM Oshawa -- Mission Statement of Green Jobs Oshawa -- Unifor Settlement with GM – Footprint or Toe Tag? / Tony Leah -- GM Oshawa: Lowered Expectations Unexplored Opportunities; The GM Strike and the Historical Convergence of Possibilities / Sam Gindin -- Bringing SNC-Lavalin to Mind During an Uninspiring Federal Election / Leo Panitch -- Take It Over: The Struggle for Green Production in Oshawa / Linda McQuaig -- Green Jobs Oshawa and a Just Transition / Rebecca Keetch -- Why GM’s Oshawa Assembly Line Shutdown is a Black Eye for Unifor’s Jerry Dias / Jennifer Wells -- Appendix: Feasibility Study for the Green Conversion of the GM Oshawa Facility: Possibilities for Sustainable Community Wealth: Summary Overview / Russ Christianson.