CAW

  • Ontario Caterpillar Workers Locked Out for Refusing Half Pay
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 30 2012 - 1:00pm

    “They issued an ultimatum, I wouldn’t call it bargaining,” said union negotiator Bob Orr. Caterpillar, despite $4.9 billion in profits, is trying to force 50 percent wage cuts by locking out 465 skilled locomotive builders.

  • Relearning Solidarity in the Air Canada Strike
    Sean Smith
    Jun 27 2011 - 4:23pm

    Air Canada's customer reps survived the airlines' decade of crisis by sacrificing hard-won gains. But when they were faced with a crush of concession demands this month, they struck, and built an activist corps in the process.

  • Stop the Auction!: UE Seeks Solidarity

    UPDATE: The auction action has been canceled. Esterline Technologies improved its severance offer--on the condition that UE Local 204 not attempt to stop the auction. The local said that more than $600,000 for 85 members is at stake. More information will be forthcoming.

  • Day of Action Delivers in Canadian Auto Parts Plants
    Howard Ryan
    Nov 26 2010 - 1:28am

    The Canadian Auto Workers’ Auto Parts Worker Day of Action in October promptly helped win contracts that staved off big concessions at three plants. Rather than respond plant by plant, the union wants to tackle the industry as a whole.

  • Canadian Auto Parts Workers Say ‘Enough Is Enough!’
    Howard Ryan
    Oct 29 2010 - 10:43am

    Fifteen thousand Canadian auto parts workers staged noon-hour rallies at work October 27, protesting companies' demands for wage cuts and two-tier wages. Citing previous concessions, officials said, "We're drawing the line."

  • Canadian Auto Workers Block Plant Auction To Salvage Back Pay, Benefits
    Gerry Farnham
    Jan 4 2010 - 4:36am

    Why are workers forced to occupy plants and blockade workplaces to get what they are legally entitled to? Canadian auto workers are in a bitter struggle just to win severance and benefits they're owed.

  • Canadian Auto Workers Take Concessions at Big 3

    Tiffany Ten Eyck

    In late April the Canadian Auto Workers reached a surprise agreement with Ford, almost five months before contract expiration and before workers even knew that talks were under way. . . .


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  • Viewpoint: CAW Committed to Militancy, Movement Unionism

    Jim O’Neil

    Labor activism has never been limited to a single tactic or channel. It is this point that Herman Rosenfeld fails to recognize in his Viewpoint criticizing the recent direction of the Canadian Auto Workers union (see Labor Notes February 2008). . . .


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  • Viewpoint: Canadian Auto Workers Moves from Fighting Back to Cooperating

    Herman Rosenfeld

    For many labor activists around the world, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), a union born in the refusal to accept the concessions agenda of the 1980s, has been an inspiring example. . . .


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