Ingersoll's CAMI is busy building the Equinox model for GM
By
Mark Schadenberg
Did
you know that Steven Carlisle is from Woodstock?
Carlisle
attended Eastdale school on Alice Street, and then Oliver Stephens public and
College Avenue Secondary School. A brilliant auto industry and business mind,
who grew up right here in Woodstock.
Steven Carlisle
Carlisle
is GM Canada president
General
Motors has had a long solid tenure in Oxford County – both with the parts
distribution centre in Woodstock on Parkinson Road and the CAMI Automotive manufacturing
facility in Ingersoll.
All
reported sales results note that the Chevrolet Equinox is a very popular family
vehicle. I heard a story today on the radio noting that 250 Equinox frames are
sped down the 401 to Oshawa almost daily to be assembled there.
A
story on CTV London on Friday discussed the fact that CAMI has 2,700 employees
working on a six-day schedule to meet demands.
CAMI
in Ingersoll is so busy job security in Oshawa will likely be improving, as
pointed in a London Free Press (LFP) story which was printed to explain an
update on talks between GM and Unifor Local 88. I have great respect for the
efforts of Ingersoll union chief Mike VanBoekel and his crew. Read the link
below as penned by Norman DeBono of the LFP. As I have never worked on any type
of an assembly line I will not pretend to create any analogy or comparison of work
timetables in that environment except to note that it is important employees are
paid proper compensation for hours worked and that safety would be the first
concern if it was decided to increase production without increasing the size
and abilities of the workforce.
Mike VanBoekel
I
guess I should get back to my opening paragraph. Steve Carlisle is the president
of GM Canada and it’s interesting to see the relationship between Unifor talks
with GM in the press on the exact same day Carlisle is in London at Western
University to meet with a group of mechanical engineering students to discover
the brilliance of a new generation of soon-to-be university grads. The TV story
featuring Carlisle is also linked below.
The
53-year-old Carlisle, who was a grad of the (systems design) engineering
program at the University of Waterloo and began working as co-op student at GM
back in 1982, has been president and managing director of GM Canada since
November of 2014.
After
earning a Master's degree in business administration at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carlisle began compiling his GM
resume, which you can see from his attached biography includes important
positions around the globe for General Motors.
I
find it interesting to note that in the world of shared resources there is a Woodstock
Sentinel-Review link below written by the LFP, and the quickest connection I
could find to a January 2016 story about a round of new hirings at CAMI was a
Sentinel story appearing in the LFP. At the time, CAMI was essentially
recruiting skilled trades for many departments, including electricians.
In
Oxford, the success of CAMI and Toyota keeps the economy’s wheels turning in
this region. Oxford has its role in the national auto scene with the
accomplishments of Carlisle and VanBoekel, and let’s not forget former CAW boss
Bob White was also from Woodstock.
LINKS:
Mark Schadenberg, Sales Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
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