How many people who were laid off in Ontario?
2008
Feb. 27. BMW announces plans to cut 5,600 jobs by the end of 2008. Most of the job cuts are in Germany.
Within the European Union, an estimated 2.3 million people are directly employed by the auto industry.
April 28: General Motors to cut 3,500 jobs by scaling back shifts at four North American assembly plants. As many as 970 people in Oshawa, Ont., are affected. Full story.
May 12: General Motors says it will close a Windsor, Ont., transmission plant by 2010. As many as 1,400 people to lose their jobs. Full story.
June 3: General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa announces as many as 2,600 people could be laid off when a pickup truck plant closes in 2009. Full story.
June: Volvo cuts 2,000 jobs worldwide.
June 18: Magna auto parts plant in St. Thomas, Ont., cuts 400 jobs. The company makes frames for GM trucks. Full story.
June 19: Formet automotive parts plant in St. Thomas, Ont., announces 400 people to be laid off.
June 27: Mitsubishi announces plans to cut 105 workers and 10 per cent of its output in the U.S.
July 8: Fiat, Italy's largest automaker, announces plans to scale back shifts at six of its Italian assembly plants.
July 15: GM announces plans to cut its white-collar workforce, spending on marketing and more production cutbacks, saving $15 billion US by the end of 2009.
Six companies build vehicles in Canada:
* GM
* Ford
* Chrysler
* Toyota
* Suzuki
* Honda
July: Sterling Truck plant in St. Thomas, Ont., cuts 720 jobs.
Aug. 6: Toyota lays off 800 workers at Japanese production plant. Blames sinking North American sales.
Aug. 28: Auto parts plant Linamar Corp. of Guelph, Ont., announces it will cut as many as 500 people from its 12,000-strong workforce. Full story.
Aug. 29: Toyota announces temporary production cuts to plants in Britain and Turkey.
Sept. 6: Toyota delays full production at SUV assembly plant in Woodstock, Ont.
Sept. 9: French automaker Renault to cut 6,000 European jobs by 2009.
September: U.S. auto sales crash, plunging 27 per cent from the same month a year earlier.
Oct. 8: Volvo cuts 4,000 jobs worldwide.
Oct. 13: Nissan announces it will cut 1,680 jobs at an assembly plant in Barcelona, Spain; published reports say Volkswagen-owned Spanish carmaker Seat to lay off 4,700 autoworkers and tire-maker Bridgestone to cut 2,800 jobs from two Spanish plants.
Japan produced 11.6 million vehicles in 2007, while the U.S. produced 10.8 million.
Oct. 14: Daimler Trucks to lay off 2,300 employees in Ontario and Portland, Ore.; Ontario's Sterling Truck announces it will shut down in less than one year, throwing 1,300 people out of work.
Oct. 16: General Motors says it will lay off 1,600 employees at three assembly plants in Michigan and Delaware.
Oct. 20: 100 employees laid off from Ford assembly plant in Oakville, Ont.
Oct. 21: Nissan announces production cuts in U.S., Japan and Spain.
Oct. 23: Volvo to cut 850 jobs at its construction equipment unit in Europe. The announcement follows an earlier cut of 1,400 workers at truck plants in Belgium and Sweden.
Oct. 23: Chrysler to cut 1,825 factory jobs in the U.S.; GM announces it will cut 5,000 jobs, cuts benefits.
Oct. 24: Chrysler announces it will cut 25 per cent of its salaried workforce.
Nov. 7: Ford to cut 10 per cent of its North American salaried workforce costs by the end of January. The cuts could mean the elimination of roughly 2,260 white-collar jobs. Full Story.
Nov. 7: General Motors says it will temporarily lay off about 3,600 workers, including 500 at its plant in Oshawa, Ont., as it slows vehicle production. Full Story.
Nov. 10: General Motors cutting another 1,900 workers at parts stamping, engine and transmission factories in North America. Full Story.
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