WSWS campaigns for unity of US and Canadian autoworkers - World Socialist Web Site
22 August 2015 With a little more than three weeks before the expiration of contracts covering 140,000 autoworkers in the United States, a campaign team from the World Socialist Web Site Autoworkers Newsletter spoke with General Motors workers in... Workers at the GM plant in Oshawa, Ontario, 40 miles outside of Toronto, expressed concerns that are very familiar to workers in the US and around the world. Global corporations like GM shift production anywhere they can find cheaper labor and “whipsaw” workers against each other in a struggle for ever-lower-paying jobs. The older consolidated GM plant in Oshawa, which produces the Impala sedan and the Chevrolet Equinox, is scheduled to close in 2016. Meanwhile other, sections of the plant have been sold off to auto parts suppliers, including Ceva Logistics, which... Rather than opposing this, Unifor, formerly the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), has accepted one concession after another just like the United Auto Workers (UAW) in the US. Andrew, a college graduate who works at the Oshawa plant as a supplemental... I see how they play workers off each other, especially with temporary workers like me. ”. Workers in Canada had no less disdain for the big-business political parties of all stripes—Liberal, Conservative or New Democratic Party. Source: www.wsws.org
