For thousands of workers across North America, General Motors just made this winter a whole lot colder. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, GM declared that in 2019 it will close three major assembly and two smaller transmission facilities in North America.

The announcement, which came despite GM’s recent robust profit reports, ensures unhappy holidays for some six thousand production employees and their families, along with the communities where the assembly plants are located: Detroit-Hamtramck; Lordstown, Ohio; and Oshawa, Ontario.

“We’ve done so much for this company,” Nanette Senters, a twenty-year veteran at the Lordstown plant, told a Vox reporter. Like the other blue-collar workers affected by the shutdowns, Senters is a union member — the US facilities are represented by the United Auto Workers, the Canadian plant by Unifor — and so earns good wages on the GM assembly line.