General Motors workers at three Ontario factories in Canada will vote on concessions their union said would result in the company spending US$764m at one of the plants to add car models that may include a revived Camaro.
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The vote by about 11,000 workers at the Oshawa plants will start on 9 March, Canadian Auto Workers spokesman Peter Kennedy told the National Post newspaper. They will decide whether to let GM contract out about 390 non-production jobs, cut break time by three minutes a shift per worker and use temporary rather than permanent union employees in some situations, Kennedy reportedly said.
According to the paper, the CAW spokesman said the union thinks it also may be able to save about 1,000 jobs slated to be cut at Oshawa Plant No. 1 under a plan GM announced in November. GM is mulling whether to build new rear-wheel-drive vehicles at Oshawa No. 1, which now makes front-wheel-drive Impala cars.
The company in January introduced a Camaro concept, and vice-chairman Bob Lutz said GM would decide within six months whether to build a new version of the rear-wheel-drive muscle car. GM dropped the Camaro in 2002, the National Post noted.
