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Nemak’s unionized employees took over the company’s aluminum plant in west Windsor on Monday in protest of the recent announcement it was closing the site in 2020.

“I would like to use this opportunity to announce that Nemak is out of business until further notice,” Unifor national president Jerry Dias said outside the plant shortly before noon on Labour Day at a gathering of nearly 100 Unifor members and their supporters.

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Workers will not be completing shifts at the auto parts plant and are preventing materials from leaving the site in response to what the union describes as a broken agreement in which Nemak workers had been promised the plant would remain open until 2022.

“We will be here until we have a solution,” Dias said. “And there is only one solution, just so we are clear.

“The only solution is that they are going to live up to the terms of the agreement and rescind the closure announcement.”