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It's a strange time when the Ontario Federation of Labour outlefts and outprinciples the Canadian Auto Workers union. Being a political child of the 90s the CAW represented the most principled and most effective wing of the labour movement. Working together in community-labour coalitions we shut down business in cities across Ontario, condemned the Rae Days union and poor bashing, made links between the unemployed and the most materially rewarded workers, and created room for new forms of struggle. The OFL was generally to the right of the CAW. That was then...
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Labour condemns CAW deal
OFL delegates resolve to oppose no-strike pact
Nov 27, 2007 04:30 AM
Ian Urquhart
Queen's Park columnist
The broader labour movement has condemned the controversial deal between the Canadian Auto Workers and Magna International Inc. that removes the right to strike from the union.
"Labour will not give up the right to strike," declared a resolution passed unanimously yesterday at the annual convention of the Ontario Federation of Labour, the umbrella organization representing 700,000 organized workers. ...
OFL president Wayne Samuelson urged the convention delegates to "send a clear message" to other employers not to follow Magna's lead and demand similar deals.
"If you do, we're going to tell you to stick it where the sun don't shine," said Samuelson to loud applause from the 1,000 delegates attending the convention at a downtown Toronto hotel.
Other labour leaders described the CAW/Magna deal as a sham, a cancer and a sweetheart deal.
Source: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/280100
For the most incisive commentary on the CAW-Magna deal see: http://socialistproject.ca/ Read (or hear) the commentaries from Sam Gindin and the short animation by Mike Constable.
Depressingly hear from the CAW PR department: http://www.caw.ca/news/newsnow/news.asp?artID=1589&db=1
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posted 27 November 2007 04:26 AM
