Oshawa I was actually excited about the senior ACORN Canada organizer’s meeting in Oshawa, Ontario, an hour supposedly but much more in steady traffic from Toronto. This town of more than 100,000 now was the site of the famous auto strike by the UAW with General Motors that was so critical almost 75 years ago …
Tag: Canadian Auto Workers
Walter Reuther’s Lesson from Autoworkers to Nurses: Harder to Bargain is Worth the Lift!
Toronto The other day I was having lunch with a friend and colleague, Colin Heslop, who has been the skilled trades director for the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union for the last decade, and worked with us to rehab a number of houses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It was a Sunday in Little Italy …
Little Hope for New NLRB Rules, SEIU Convention, & Canadian Initiatives
New Orleans It is time to examine the results of all of the sound and fury of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions that conservatives claimed would bring the end of world as they knew it. The conclusion to date is that there is no change whatsoever! Step back for a minute and remember …