Canadian Auto Workers have pledged their support for U.S. autoworkers even as their plants close due to lack of auto parts flowing north. Jesse Russell reports:

[Hargrove1]: By the end of this week we could have anywhere between eighty and 100,000 people unemployed.

That was Canadian Auto Worker President Buzz Hargrove addressing reporters on Monday after news hit his country of the United Auto Workers walk out at GM plants throughout the United States. According to Hargrove, GM plants in Canada receive roughly 50 percent of their parts from the United States. Without new shipments coming in plants will begin turning off the lights and sending workers home as stock runs out. Hargrove said the UAW has given more than enough, but GM doesn’t seem to want to offer the same commitment. He said what is happening in the US could be a sign of how GM plans to approach Canadian autoworkers in 2008:

[Hargrove]: General Motors appears to be saying to the UAW and probably to us next year that the troubles they're experiencing because of the level of imports and the transplant production that doesn’t make the same level of commitments in terms of investment and jobs in the U.S. and Canada. They are going to try and make the UAW members pay out-of-pocket for the problems they are experiencing.