from the Canadian Auto Workers
Canadian premiers gathered July 24 and 25 in Niagara-on-the-Lake for Council of the Federation meetings were met by a People's Shadow Summit and rally to defend public health care.
from Canadian Auto Workers and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union
TORONTO and OTTAWA, December 17, 2012 — Two of Canada's largest private sector unions are calling on the federal government to meet with Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence immediately, leading into a formal treaty meeting with First Nations.
Canada's auto industry has been to hell and back over the last decade. 50,000 good auto jobs disappeared, due to global financial turmoil, recession, plant closures, and surging imports from offshore. In 1999 we ranked as the 4th largest auto producer in the world — an incredible national achievement. Today we aren't even in the top ten. The industry reached the breaking point in 2009 …but then pulled back from the brink, with the help of government intervention and sacrifices by auto workers and other stakeholders.
