Production of the General Motors CAMI Automotive facility in Ingersoll, Ontario, is shown in this Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 file photo.Dave Chidley / Canadian Press General Motors Ingersoll, Ontario production facility, known as CAMI Assembly, will go through a temporary layoffs for the week starting September 30, and may see several more layoff weeks through the end of the year, the automaker told Automotive News.The shut-down will allow GM to re-adjust production targets for the Chevrolet Equinox crossover built there, to re-align manufacturing with market demand.While sales of the Equinox were up slightly in the U.S., reports the outlet, they were down significantly in Canada in the first half of this year; a generally softening North American new-car market will see the other facility that builds the Equinox, GMs San Luis Potos plant in Mexico, permanently cut one of its three shifts, starting this month.The head of the union representing the CAMI plants 2,500-plus workers, Unifor Local 88 President Joe Graves, said GM cutting a shift at its Mexican plant instead of at Ingersoll is a sign that GM does recognize our quality, even if labor costs at the San Luis Potos are
Origin: GM plans ‘temporary layoffs’ at Ontario plant late September