Abandoned Wescast employees hold protest over $10 million in payments owed to workers

Wescast employees claim they are owed millions

May 2, 2024 @ 9:00 amLocal News, News, Wingham Advance Times

Wescast Industries employees who were laid off in July 2023 held a rally at their former workplace on April 25 to demand that the now China-based company Bohong Industries pay workers their severance and termination pay, which totals approximately $10 million.
WINGHAM – It’s been nine months since Wescast Industries shuttered its doors, laying off 180 workers from its Wingham-based foundry with a promise that the closure would be temporary so that “assessments, planning and requests for new investments can be made,” according to an internal memo sent to employees in May of 2023. Since the…
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Cory Bilyea is a reporter with Midwestern Newspapers.