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CAW Membership Vote in Favour of New Agreement at General Motors


October 2005
 Filed under: GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATE Car News | GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATE Headlines
TORONTO, Oct. 2 /CNW/ - Thousands of CAW members who work at General Motors of Canada plants have voted in favour of a new three-year collective agreement with the company. CAW members who work at GM in Oshawa, St. Catharines, Windsor and Woodstock, Ontario voted on the tentative agreement at ratification meetings October 1 and October 2.
General Motors production workers voted 78 per cent in favour, while skilled trades voted 83 per cent in favour.

CAW president Buzz Hargrove said the strong support shown by GM workers and earlier from Ford and DaimlerChrysler workers demonstrates that the union negotiated agreements for its Big Three membership that are fair and equitable, especially considering the tough bargaining environment.

He said the union has shown that it knows how to bargain agreements that will help Canada's auto industry remain competitive during a period of global restructuring and economic pressure. But the union has done that in a way that doesn't harm its members, their families and communities.

Hargrove stressed that governments must take action to deal with the unfair international trade in autos and the flood of imports coming into North America from Japan and Korea, while Big Three autos are allowed only limited access to those markets.

"We have to turn up the heat and get the government to realize we can't continue being a boy scout when it comes to trade," Hargrove said.

In addition to modest improvements in wages, pensions and other benefits, the GM agreement ensures continuing production at GM facilities. The new collective agreement also provides changes in the delivery of health benefits that save tens of millions of dollars each year, without hurting the quality of benefits which CAW members receive.

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