Navistar meets with union Thurs.
The first face-to-face meeting in more than a year between former Navistar Chatham workers and company executives is on tap for Thursday.
The session, involving officials of CAW Local 127 – which represents factory workers and Local 35 – representing office workers – will be held in Windsor.
A plan tabled last year by the company to greatly downsize operations at the Richmond Street truck plant was flatly rejected by the CAW.
Since the old contract expired at the end of June last year the plant has sat idled. In its heyday in the late 1990s it employed more than 2,200 workers.
CAW representatives are hopeful tomorrow’s meeting will shed new light on the company’s plans for the Chatham facility.
Company spokesman Roy Wiley has said repeatedly the company is willing to talk provided the talks are productive.
