Oshawa General Motors / Kerr Industries / General Motors / North American Free Trade Agreement / GM Canada / Pittsburgh Glassworks AG / Lear / Canadian Labour Congress / Gerdau Ameristeel / Johnson Controls / Pilkington / /
General Motors’ complex / Oshawa General Motors facility / Plant One / GM North Plant / King’s Highway / Loblaws warehouse / Oshawa facility / Plant Two / /
Holiday
Christmas / /
IndustryTerm
oil exports / cement water / car plant / high gas prices / manufacturing jobs / bank / paint shop / manufacturing / chemicals / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Ontario / /
Organization
CAW / Obama government / Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario / Canadian government / Congress / Durham Region Labour Council / federal government / Action Centre / Conservative government / Harper government / /
Person
Joel Smith / Kathie Fowlie / Tammy Schoep / John MacDonald / Tim Eye / Greg Moffatt / Teresa Healy / Ingrid Thompson / Sandra Kicinko / Don Dew / Jim Flaherty / /
Position
unit chair / dealer / Conservative MP and Finance Minister / laid-off worker / /
Communities in Crisis Oshawa, Ontario Introduction Every month, Statistics Canada reports alarming rates of unemployment, yet even these astonishing figures do not reflect the individual and shared experiences of workers