General Motors’ CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, stopped making vans last year and its future is now uncertain.
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As the weeks passed after General Motors Co. shut down the assembly line where he had been working, reality began to set in for Mike Horne.
Sitting in a union office set up to connect laid‑off workers with training and employment resources, Horne, in his early 50s, was coming to terms with the idea that his job might never come back at the plant known as CAMI, about two hours from Detroit in the town of Ingersoll, Ontario.