CAW members and supporters will demonstrate today at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport to demand an end to the lockout of 200 airport limo drivers, who have been off the job for more than a month.
The drivers are employed by McIntosh, Air Cab and Aaroport – all of which are owned by the McIntosh Group of Companies and have been locked out of their jobs since December 1.
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Caesars Windsor and CAW union Local 444 officially launched their 2010 contract talks Wednesday, giving good odds on reaching a deal without a strike.
Company and union officials expressed optimism that they could reach a settlement before the current three-year contract expires April 3.
“I’m confident,” said Caesars Windsor president and CEO Kevin Laforet, before team discussions began at a meeting room in the Augustus Tower. “We have a different mindset, a different way of looking at it. It has been very collaborative.”
Laforet praised CAW Local 444 president Rick Laporte for reaching out to the casino over the past six months in an attempt to build a better working relationship.
LINDSAY — Workers at Lindsay’s Armada Toolworks plant could face a lockout as early as Dec. 30 after workers voted 68% in favour of rejecting the company’s final offer.
The contract for 146 Armada workers represented by the Canadian Auto Workers Local 222 expired at the end of November.
Armada has filed for a no-board report which would put the company in a legal position to lock out workers as of Dec. 30, according to a news release from the union.
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The CAW is calling for an end to the lock out of approximately 200 Toronto airport limo taxi drivers, employed by McIntosh, Air Cab and Aaroport. The lock out began more than a week ago after the owner of the three firms refused to issue the drivers their provincial vehicle registration stickers, effectively locking them out of their jobs.
The majority of the workers are first generation immigrants of South Asian origin.
The company walked away from negotiations with the CAW Local 252 in early November, refusing to settle on an equitable first agreement and proceeded to lock out the workers. The workers have been picketing the office of the three companies since December 1.
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The spectre of another crippling strike at Port Metro Vancouver is being raised by angry container truckers.
They claim that rates negotiated after a bitter, five-week strike in 2005 are being undercut.
“We’ re in bargaining right now with 12 different companies,” said Gavin McGarrigle national representative for CAW, the Canadian Auto Workers union.
“We’re getting to the point where a strike option is definitely a possibility and we haven’t ruled that out yet.”
About 400 disgruntled truckers drove in a protest convoy that tied up traffic Saturday.
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Workers at Armada Toolworks Lt. in Lindsay, Ont., have voted to give their union a strike mandate in contract negotiations.
Local 222 of the Canadian Auto Workers says 89 per cent of those who voted Sunday approved the strike mandate.
Their current contract expires Nov. 30.
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Negotiations between CAW Local 444 and officials of Integram Seating will kick into high gear Monday in an attempt to reach a collective agreement and head off a potential strike.
Rick Laporte, president of Local 444, said sub-committees from both sides have been meeting this week to try and deal with minor issues with full committees expected at the table Monday.
Laporte said the major issues remain wages and pensions.
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Workers at Oakville’s Automodular Corporation joined a province-wide CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) Day of Action, Wednesday, calling for an end to employer demands for contract concessions.
Approximately 40 auto parts workers assembled outside Automodular’s 2335 Speers Rd. location to participate in a short rally telling auto parts industry employers, ‘Enough is enough.’
“We’re not interested in negotiating backward. We in the union have done our share with this latest crisis. The autoworker is not responsible for the downturn in this sector. The auto parts industry has been hard hit for years with unfair trade agreements, a high Canadian dollar and finally the latest global economic crisis,” said Angus MacDonald, CAW Local 1256 president, who addressed the gathering from atop a picnic table via megaphone.
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TORONTO, Ont. – It was a day of action for thousands of Canadian Auto Workers’ union members, Wednesday.
CAW auto parts workers rallied outside plants in Toronto, Brampton, Guelph, Hamilton, Dundas, St. Catherines, Kitchener, Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, Woodstock, Stratford, St. Thomas, and Windsor.
The union says workers are fed up with their employers are asking for major concessions.
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Employees are on strike across the province as CAW members and hotel workers rally for better conditions.
In Ontario, the Canadian Autoworkers Union held a day of action outside more than 100 plants. Thousands are expected to attend the Wednesday event. The union says workers are fed up with their employers asking for major concessions.
Demonstrations were held in Brampton, Guelph, Ingersoll, Hamilton, Dundas, Kitchener, London, Oakville, Stratford, St. Thomas, St. Catharines, Tillsonburg, Toronto, Windsor and Woodstock, with CAW president Ken Lewenza expected in Burlington.
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