Days after they said they were "accelerating their transformation", General Motors has announced some help for workers who will be out of a job at the end of next year in Oshawa.
With the assembly plant closing in Oshawa, 25 hundred people will be looking for work.
But today, the company said they are working with their dealer network, to retrain plant workers, in hopes that they would become automotive service technicians.
"Our dealers are in tremendous need of technicians." says GM spokesperson David Paterson. "Who better than someone who has been building our great vehicles to actually service them and take care of them?"
GM Canada says they'll work with Durham College, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, as well as the provincial and federal governments. They'll foot the bill for any of the college training, even if the workers are looking to retrain in a different career path.
"There's about a dozen different dealers that we've talked to just today in the area, many have an on-going need for technicians, basically two or three, each." says Paterson.
He couldn't say if they'd be able to find jobs for all of the nearly three thousand people who will be out of work, only saying, "We would love to take care of all interested workers through this initiative. Working with our dealers, we think it's a great start."
Paterson says there's been interest from other businesses who are looking to fill holes at their locations as well.