Spread Employment: Gm Announcement and John Henry

spread employment: John Henry, the outgoing Oshawa mayor and incoming chair of Durham Region, says significant strides have been made to spread employment across sectors other than automotive, according to The Toronto Star. We were halfway up the mountain until the GM announcement. Optimists say the local economy has already become more diverse and resilient in response to the decades of decline in the automotive manufacturing sector since GM's heyday in the 1980s, when the Oshawa plant boasted more than 36,000 jobs. Steve Russell / Toronto Star But it will take a lot more than a diverse jobs base to revive a blue-collar community impaired by the sputtering auto sector, says labour market analyst Tom Zizys. There are different pockets of sectors that are starting to grow there, but I don't think they've thought about what is a proper economic development strategy, linked to who lives in region. Durham has historically relied on two major industries auto and nuclear power, Zizys said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.