Company Town follows the workers at General Motors in Oshawa, Ontario as they face the fight of their lives when the company announces its closing operations after 100 years of building automobiles. Featuring a musical appearance by Sting.
Director: Peter Findlay
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Video “Company Town: Inside the GM Oshawa Plant Closure” was uploaded on 09/06/2025 to Youtube Channel Best Documentary
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The near future of GM Korea?
I worked in a state-owned company in Turkey between 1990 and 2000. Our business was to produce and sell tobacco, cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. Unfortunately, one day, this business was closed down. Not because it was inefficient, but because its competitors, British Tobacco and Philip Morris, wanted to control the entire market. Unfortunately, the global economy affects everyone.
GM just closes one factory town after another; leaving desolation and failing schools in their wake. The biggest GM plant in the world closed after promising they’d stay open if they got tax breaks. They got their tax break. Ypsilanti got the shaft. Then there’s Flint, where GM bought water from elsewhere bc Flint water ruined their equipment. The worst is when you have lived in a house for 25 years and it can’t be sold. No equity, despite upgrades. And my last GM car was made in China. GM is a scourge. IMO large employers should be banned. Too much negative impact when they turn their plants into ghettos. They create a giant hole, after not paying their share in taxes to support the necessary infrastructure. Then, like in Flint the hole is too large (and polluted) to be reused. They just create a pile of decay blighting whole regions, without any accountability.
Been there Caterpillar worker 34 year UAW 145 life goes On!!!!!
Unions ruined it all..made people greedy and lazy.
The goverment should seize/expropriate the plant, sell it to someone and pay the workers what´s right.
Wasn't Detroit devastated after car makers left town? Won't AI replace many jobs? Outsourcing started long ago and if it's legal, companies will do it and guess what, large companies and multinationals do have an influence over governments and lobbying exists. Therefore so long as governments and regulationas and laws allow such things (such as outsourcing), against their national interests, companies will do whatever they think is best for their business (yeah, it's a business after all). I understand how it affects workers but in capitalism, most businesses look after their own profit and workers are expendable, specially when the job you do can be done anywhere else on the planet.
Companies are free to make decisions within the law. Workers get paid for the job they do while they are needed. Companies call the shots, whether we like it or not. It's not the other way around. And don't forget, AI will change the job market forever in ways many cannot envision yet.
Sting is a greedy bastard and is getting sued by the other members of The Police.
The problems with GM
Never seem to end
Maybe if Oshawa's towns only job creating sector is one car plant? the Town is dead already than.
More American jobs.
Damn, 27:00 very relatable
I work for GM, its great if you are working. I know how this feels. Been through couple of lay offs. Oshawa is back up running, wishing everyone the best.
We build it like we own it. Local 22 and 5960.
Corporate law is based on the exploitation of labor. Corporations have a legal obligation to prioritize profit for shareholders, full stop. There are other forms of business if people are open to it. Certainly mandated profit sharing, and high employee ownership would be a start. Taxation was effective for a short time but lobby groups representing the large corporations have steadily eroded the little progress made there.
wow
Dias is lame, asking his niece and nephew about workers' moods,at the plant during its last week of production. He should have been at the plant with the workers.
Will not buy electric vehicles pieces of shit
Este canal debería tener doblaje al español
Americans hate socialism until it is needed to stop capitalism from making it socially impossible to live. Then they gather, picket, encourage unions that barely holds any power, but clearly empowers the people running it, because people didn’t want to invest in the togetherness of workers until it is too late. Crazy to see that so little push was made from the unions until it they got absolutely no leverage. This will be an even bigger problem with Trump trying to move more industry back into the united states, to an aging and way too slow workforce compared to their international competitors. You can’t strong arm these companies as they will just break big companies into smaller ones and operate them from countries with higher efficiency, and with stronger and more agile workforce. A workforce that cares more about hours, less about over the top safety measures that only cripples that efficiency. The movie «The Factory» shows a great example of this, and as Trump says that technology will close the gap, more technology requires less people. The idea of moving jobs back into states sound like great thing on paper, but Americans have declined too much in health, efficiency and relevant education. I hope it turns around, these are good people that deserves better, but this is a totalitarian problem.
@ 0:52 and you build GM and drive a Dodge.
Sinceramente? Acredito que vai piorar, e bastante!! Aguardem as cenas dos próximos capítulos…
For every plant that closes GM CEOs will get a $15 to $20 million dollar bonus at the end of the year its greed nothing more how many millions does one mad need?
LMFAO. This jack off has pride making GM vehicles as he drives away in his Ram 1500.
TRUMP NOMICS, are YOU tired of ALL the WINNING, yet?!!
Don’t buy GM vehicles made in Mexico??? What about Korea and China?
Trump was gonna keep car factories employing American & Canadian workers in Canada and the United States open. Remember!
Unions can't do math…………