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Photo's from the Massive Rally in Support of Electro-Motive Workers in London - January 21 2012A race to the bottomBy Anne Jarvis, The Windsor Star January 11, 2012 If you worked for a gigantic and extremely profitable company, and that company, in the middle of negotiating a new contract with your union, abruptly and unilaterally took an axe to your wages, would you object?Of course you would. That's what Caterpillar Inc., which owns Electro-Motive Canada in London, did. Electro-Motive tabled its final offer. The Canadian Auto Workers rejected it. The company locked out the workers. On New Year's Day. Happy New Year. The final offer: slashing wages by 55 per cent. The majority of the 465 workers, who manufacture locomotives, were making $34 an hour. That would plummet to $16.50 an hour. Could you support your family on $16.50 an hour? You're darn right it would be hard. Click Here to Read more: http://www.windsorstar.com/race+bottom/5977606/story.html#ixzz1jLY5b0xo--- The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement - A Primer
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---- ----- 2011 Labour Day - Monday September 5, 2011Labour Minister Seeks Safety For New WorkersMay 27th, 2011 . Blackburn News Just as tens of thousands of students hit the streets, resume in hand, looking for work, Ontario Ministry of Labour inspectors are hitting the streets too in search of bad employers. Labour Minister Charles Sousa says there’s zero tolerance for employers who don’t provide a safe working environment or intimidate employees who demand it. He made his point while speaking with workers at the Windsor Assembly Plant and later during a meeting with local labour leaders at the CAW Local 444 Hall. 400 inspectors are randomly searching workplaces across the province for violations. “What really gives me anxiety is when my blackberry buzzes because that tells me there’s been a fatality or injury and that happens all too often.” In 2009, there were 7,527 injuries on the job in Ontario. That’s a 30% improvement from the year before when there were over 10,000 but Sousa says that’s not good enough. He says new and young workers are far more likely to be injured in the first month on the job than any other worker so it’s imperative they get the right training, receive the right supervision and know their rights, including the right to refuse unsafe work. Story by Adelle Loiselle, Blackburn News. See Photo's from the meeting here
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