Sault eyes Oshawa workers to fill job vacancies: Recruitment efforts underway.

• Date: 01 April 2019
• Author: Kelly, Lindsay

With too many Sault Ste. Marie companies unable to find skilled workers to meet demand, the city has set its sights on Oshawa's autoworkers--who could be out of work by year's end--as potential recruits.

Durly an early January budget meeting, the city revealed it had started a conversation with management at General Motors (GM) about initiating recruitment efforts.

"We've been working for a while doing community outreach and talking to the leading employers in town, and a consistent theme was that they were having trouble finding skilled labour," said Tom Vair, the city's deputy CAO of community development and enterprise services.

"When we heard about the closure at GM, we thought, there's an opportunity there perhaps to attract some of those folks to Sault Ste. Marie."

News broke in November that GM would permanently close four of its North American facilities by the end of 2019, including its Oshawa assembly plant, which employs...