Magna International suspends supply of tools to CAMI

Autoparts builder Magna International announced Wednesday that it has dangling a supply of tools to CAMI, a Ingersoll automobile production plant that’s been crippled by a work dispute.

The three-day aged strike began when unionized workers walked out Sunday night over pursuit confidence and General Motors’ destiny investment in a factory, that churns out a Chevy Equinox, a car that is also made during dual apart plants in Mexico. 

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“Due to a strike in outcome given Sept. 17 during a CAMI Automotive Inc. trickery in Ingersoll, Ontario, Magna International has dangling a supply of tools to a CAMI facility,” a recover from Magna pronounced Wednesday. 

“This cessation of supply to CAMI affects a outlay during a few Magna comforts in Ontario,” it stated. 

A orator for a company would not criticism any serve when reached by phone. 

Magna International is one of a largest autoparts manufacturers in a universe and it’s not famous how many of its workers might be influenced by a walkout during a CAMI plant. 

“It’s unfit to tell,” Tony Faria, an automobile attention researcher with a University of Windsor said. “”Magna would positively know. Anyone outward Magna is not expected to know a accurate numbers.”

Toni Faria is a co-director Office of Automotive and Vehicle Research during a University of Windsor. (CBC)

Faria said a same is loyal of a series of workers who work in other autoparts plants that supply CAMI and he estimates tens of thousands of people could be affected. 

“I don’t know accurately how many workers outward a CAMI plant are dependant on it, though a normal spinoff series that’s used is there are during slightest 7 people who owe their jobs to one chairman employed in a plant,” he said. 

“If we take that for a CAMI plant there could be good some-more than 20,000 people,” Faria said. “A lot of them will be impacted, some of them immediately.” 

Faira remarkable a Qualtech seating plant in London is expected influenced by a work brawl during CAMI in Ingersoll. 

“They’re expected on layoff right away,” Faria said. 

Calls to Qualtech were not returned during a time of publication. 

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-cami-strike-affect-parts-plants-1.4298842?cmp=rss