Canadian Auto Workers

I did an appearance on the Real News Network, a web TV operation currently based out of Toronto but planning a move to D.C. to take on the "industrial-military complex" in person. Part one is now online. (I could embed it here, but it's pretty long.) The other guest was Jim Stanford, chief...  

Is it possible that those of us who toil in the Fourth Estate don’t understand the realities of working on an assembly line? Some readers told us that was the case, after a Post editorial counselled that any auto sector bailout should be accompanied by concessions from the Canadian Auto Workers...  

Canadian Auto Workers union president Ken Lewenza was widely criticized Tuesday after saying he would refuse to make concessions to any taxpayer-funded rescue package for the Big Three automakers.  

Canadian Auto Workers union president Ken Lewenza yesterday rejected calls for his members to make concessions as part of any taxpayer-funded rescue of Detroit's car manufacturers, saying labour did not create ...  

It's possible to sympathize with the position of the Canadian Auto Workers union when the crisis in the auto industry is viewed solely from their perspective.  

By Sean B. Pasternak Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Auto Workers union President Ken Lewenza rejected calls yesterday for job cuts among its members as ...  

CTV.caAuto workers need to co-operate in rescue - Canada Reuters - 26 minutes ago OTTAWA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - The Canadian Auto Workers union needs to co-operate in any proposed government aid package for the struggling auto sector, Industry Minister Tony Clement said on Tuesday. Ottawa, Ontario...  

Canadian Auto Workers President Ken Lewenza said Friday he was disappointed that Chrysler owes top executives about $30 million in retention bonuses, and he questioned the payments' legitimacy.  

The head of the Canadian Auto Workers is calling on Canada and the U.S. to step in and save the Big 3 automakers, saying a failure would be "devastating" to the nation's economy.  

Lakeside Steel Inc. announced today that it reached a tentative agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers, Local 523 representing about 400 employees of Lakeside Steel Corporation , the wholly-owned subsidiary ...  

Casino workers need to remember why Ontario embraced gambling in the first place more than 13 years ago, says Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza. [...]  

Leaders from the Canadian Auto Workers union, and the Chrysler sector of the union, held a business update meeting with senior executives from Chrysler's North American manufacturing division on October 30 in Windsor, Ontario. The meeting was a regular quarterly business update that had been...  

The Canadian Auto Workers union has said that it opposes in potential merger between General Motors and Chrysler.  

The dramatic decline in auto sales in North America last month, to their lowest levels since the recession of 1991, reflects the crisis in credit conditions in the industry, said Canadian Auto Workers Union ...  

The Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums has accredited the zoo for a five-year period, the Peterborough Utilities Commission states in a release ...  

Lakeside Steel Inc. announced today that members of the Canadian Auto Workers, Local 523 , the union representing about 400 employees of Lakeside Steel Corporation , the wholly-owned subsidiary of Lakeside ...  

The Canadian Auto Workers union is to continue to urge Daimler to keep its Sterling Truck plant in St.Thomas, Ontario open, despite the auto company seemingly being committed to closing the facility.  

The Canadian Auto Workers warns the possibility of General Motors acquiring Chrysler raises the spectre of "further significant downsizing" in Canada.  

The possibility of General Motors acquiring Chrysler raises the specter of 'further significant downsizing' in Canada, says Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza.  

Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza says Daimler Trucks officials have told him that "no money in the world" could change the fate of a plant the company plans to shut down in St.  

The Canadian Press WINDSOR, Ont. a ' Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza says Daimler Trucks officials have told him that a a no money in the worlda TMa TM could change the fate of a plant the company ...  

Members of the Canadian Auto Workers Union Local 4451 have ratified a new three-year agreement with Cooper-Standard in Stratford, Ontario.  

CAW's Ken Lewenza says Daimler rejected plea to retool truck plant. Oct 22, 2008 04:30 AM Be the first to comment on this article... WINDSORa 'Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza says Daimler Trucks ...  

Contract negotiations opened Monday between the Canadian Auto Workers and Lear Seating.  

The Canadian Auto Workers union struck out yesterday in a bid to have Daimler AG reconsider closing a truck assembly plant in St.  

The Canadian Auto Workers union said yesterday it is working with three levels of government to save the Daimler Trucks plant in St.  

St. Thomas, Ontario - Representatives of the Canadian Auto Workers Union and all three levels of government have met and planned a collaborative effort to convince Daimler Trucks to keep its Sterling Truck ...  

The Canadian Auto Workers, which represents the unionized workers employed with the St.  

The Canadian Auto Workers Union has announced it is donating approximately $80,000 to women's shelters with funds raised by the annual Bob White Charity Golf Invitiational held in August.  

The Canadian Auto Workers union said on Tuesday it had failed to win a reprieve for Daimler AG's Sterling truck plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, but vowed to continue fighting to save hundreds of jobs.  

The Canadian Auto Workers union has asked General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC to clarify whether they were considering a merger, since any such transaction would risk "massive consolidation and massive job ...  

The Canadian Auto Workers union has asked General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC to clarify whether they were considering a merger, since any such transaction would risk "massive consolidation and massive job ...  

DETROITThe Canadian Auto Workers union has asked General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC to clarify whether they were considering a merger, since any such transaction would risk "massive consolidation and massive ...  

The Canadian Auto Workers will meet with the top executive of Daimler Trucks today in Windsor in hopes of saving the Sterling truck plant.  

This is a mug shot of Ken Lewenza, CAW’s National President. The CAW, it’s the Canadian Auto Workers Union. In such tough time for the auto industry, my guess is that Ken doesn’t feel like laughing or smilling. Great since I’m not really a smilly portrait photographer, unless it’s needed for the...  

The Canadian Auto Workers union has asked both GM and Chrysler, which is controlled by private equity group Cerberus Capital Management LP CBS. ...  

With turmoil in the financial markets infecting consumer confidence and the auto industry bleeding nearly white, the Canadian Auto Workers union is "holding its breath" that there won't be any more plant ...  

TORONTO - With turmoil in the financial markets infecting consumer confidence and the auto industry bleeding nearly white, the Canadian Auto Workers union is "holding its breathe" that there won't be any more plant closings and permanent job loses in the foreseeable future.  

Recent endorsements of an NDP candidate by Canadian Auto Workers officials in Oshawa have led an activist to accuse the union local of breaching rules limiting political involvement.  

Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, GM, UAW/Unions, CanadaIn a deal designed to assuage the tensions between General Motors and the Canadian Auto Workers union, GM's new car plant in Oshawa, Ontario will gain two additional models to build. The old truck plant in the same...  

Filed under: Etc., UAW/Unions, CanadaBuzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada's largest in the private sector, will step down earlier than anticipated. Hargrove wasn't expected to retire until he reached the CAW's mandatory age of 65 next year. It's tough to resist the allure...  

Hundreds of Canadian Auto Worker Union members gathered to present Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with thousands of old work boots collected from laid off workers from across Ontario.  

The Canadian Auto Workers Union hasA said that local politicians have agreed to seek out a meeting with Navistar, which earlier announced that it will lay off 470 workers at its Chatham, Ontario truck assembly ...  

Finance minister Jim Flaherty said some of his constituents don't want him to bail the auto industry out but the Canadian Auto Workers are asking people to tell him he's wrong.  

CORNWALL, Ont. -- The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation's unionized employees, members of the Canadian Auto Workers union, ratified a three-year labour agreement Oct.  

The Canadian Wheat Board said Oct. 14 that the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and the Canadian Auto Workers union reached a tentative labor agreement that will avert a strike among the Seaway ...  

Almost 700 members of the Canadian Auto Workers Union struck Xstrata Copper Canada's processing plants in Northern Ontario yesterday after contract negotiations failed.  

Confidence and Volatility - Interview with Former Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove