CAW: No concessions, solidarity with U.S. workers - 11/18/05

By Jesse Russell

On the heels of massive concession demands Delphi has made of workers in the United States... Canadian Auto Worker leadership unanimously voted through an emergency resolution last Friday that reaffirms their position of no-concession bargaining. The CAW sees the potential of the crisis in the United States stretching across the border endangering the entire North American auto parts industry. At the emergency resolution meeting, CAW Council President Ken Lewenza pledged cross border solidarity with their UAW brothers and sisters in the US:

[Lewenza]: Our message to the United Auto workers, we will stand hand in hand, solidarity from one country to another, rejecting the corporate agenda that attacks workers rights and kills communities and destroys the hopes and aspirations of union members.