Dana Canada Layoffs

The London Free Press is reporting that 350 of the 410 workers at the Dana Canada plant in St Marys have been given layoff notices. Layoffs will begin in June and continue into July.

The plant on James Street makes frames for Ford's F series pickup trucks. Dana has lost the Ford contract so it is possible the layoffs are permanent and the plant will close. If a new contract for another model or with another company were secured it could take up to a year to get up and running with the new product.

Dana is St Marys, Ontario's largest employer and eliminated the third shift, laying off 108, in August 2006.