Potential for 200 jobs as idled Windsor plant begins wind turbine production
WindTronics Inc. set to take over former Magna plant on city’s west side
By Dave Hall, The Windsor Star
WINDSOR, Ont. — A Michigan company is expected to confirm plans Friday to take over a former Magna International plant on the city’s far west side to begin production of small residential and commercial wind turbines.
It’s anticipated that as many as 200 jobs would eventually be created once WindTronics Inc., a division of Muskegon-based EarthTronics Inc., is in full production at the former Intier Innovatech Seating Systems plant on Sprucewood Avenue.
Unemployment front: Try harder
The Chronicle Herald editorial
PART-TIME jobs are growing in Canada.
There were 31,000 more of them in August, Statistics Canada reported yesterday, which more than offset, at least in numbers, the bad news that another 3,900 full-time jobs disappeared. Nevertheless, the national unemployment rate edged up marginally to 8.7 per cent because the number of people joining the labour force was greater than the number who found jobs.
The August gain of 27,100 jobs is not a huge turn-around. Canada has lost 387,000 jobs since October. But August was the first month to show any net gain, tentative evidence that we’ve passed another milestone on the tough slog to recovery. (more…)