General Motors has informed Unifor that a shutdown is coming for the CAMI Plant in Ingersoll.
INGERSOLL - Tough times are coming for the CAMI Plant in Ingersoll.
General Motors has said they are temporarily halting and reducing the production of the BrightDrop electric vehicle, which is assembled at CAMI. GM informed Unifor that CAMI Assembly will initiate temporary layoffs starting Monday, April 14th with workers returning in May for limited production. After that, production will temporarily cease with operations idling until October 2025. When production resumes in October, the plant will operate on a single shift for the foreseeable future a reduction that is expected to result in the indefinite layoff of nearly 500 workers.
Unifor Local 88 CAMI Plant Chairperson Mike Van Boekel says the weight of this news will be felt by so many people.
"Our members have endured so much from retooling disruptions to months of rotating layoffs and now they’re facing a major production slowdown and job loss. Global demand for last-mile delivery vehicles is only growing. Our members have the skill, the experience, and the pride to build world-class electric vehicles right here in Canada all we need is the opportunity to keep doing it."
There will be retooling taking place at CAMI during the downtime according to GM. The work will be getting the plant ready for the production of the 2026 model of commercial electric vehicles. With that said, GM has indicated it remains committed to the CAMI facility, but the immediate future remains uncertain without stronger domestic support and fair market access.
Unifor Local 88 represents more than 1,200 workers at the CAMI Assembly Plant, where GM began BrightDrop production in early 2023.
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