CAW Members Ratify Restructuring Deal with General Motors

May 25, 2009 CAW Members Ratify Restructuring Deal with General Motors (Toronto) CAW members working at General Motors in Oshawa, Windsor, St. Catharines and Woodstock, Ontario have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new collective agreement, ratifying the deal by 86 per cent after a series of meetings were held over the past two days. [...]

CAW Reaches Tentative Settlement with GM

Media Advisory – Canada & U.S. distribution May 22, 2009 CAW Reaches Tentative Settlement with GM (Toronto) The CAW has reached a tentative settlement with General Motors Canada following weeks of intense negotiations for a new collective agreement as part of the company’s North American restructuring process. The agreement includes a series of cost-saving provisions [...]

Windsor Retirees Save Our Pension Rally

Windsor Retirees Save Our Pension Rally

Jim Stanford – What is YOUR All-in Hourly Labour Cost???

May 4, 2009 One enormous myth that has been propagated (sometimes innocently, sometimes not) in recent debates over the future of the auto industry is the false notion that auto workers “make” $75 per hour. Autoworkers don’t remotely make that much money – yet the lie has been repeated often enough, I am amazed at [...]

ER patients at risk in Ontario

ER patients at risk in Ontario By JENNY YUEN, SUN MEDIA Ambulances sit outside Humber Memorial hospital while patients are off-loaded. (DAVE THOMAS/Sun Media) TORONTO – Down a hospital hallway, a row of stretchers line the wall near the nurse’s station. On one of them is an elderly woman who’s in pain. She has been [...]