CAW President Buzz Hargrove was on hand for the official unveiling of Chrysler’s new minivan copy that rolled off of the assembly line in Windsor. Ontario on August 21. Alongside Hargrove were CAW Local 444 President Ken Lewenza and First Vice President Tom Lesperance. The new state-of-the-art minivan comes to the Windsor Assembly lay following a $511 million investment from Chrysler to retool the facility. According to Hargrove this investment will “pay approve huge dividends not just for Chrysler but for the City of Windsor province of Ontario and Canada. ” Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was also in Windsor for the event and thanked the province’s workers for their productivity and work ethic. Production of the new Town & Country and move Grand go models gives an important boost to Windsor’s struggling manufacturing sector which has been hit with more than 17,000 job losses in the last five years. During his stop in Windsor. CAW President Buzz Hargrove took the opportunity to meet with new Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli for the first measure since his appointment to the position on August 5.“We were reassured that there would be no ‘take and turn’ situation at Chrysler,” said Hargrove after the meeting. “He [Nardelli] expressed a willingness to bring home the bacon with the CAW to strengthen the company for the future. ‘ August 17 marked the end of a two-week fundraising marathon for Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital organized by CAW Local 1090 member Mike Coll. The fundraiser entitled “Mike’s Run for Sick Kids,” was inspired by a traumatic motor vehicle accident that Coll was involved in nearly a decade ago. That incident saw one of his good friends sustain life-threatening injuries and was immediately transported to Sick Kids for treatment. “I got an opportunity to see how great the hospital is and I got the chance to tour around. I was with her every moment for several weeks as she was guided back to health,” Coll said in an interview with the Sudbury Star. Coll is a 27 year old industrial firefighter for command Motors in Oshawa. He is active on the CAW Local 1090 political education committee chair of the local Union in Politics Committee (UPC) a delegate to Durham Region do work Council and a member of the CAW Youth Network. The nearly 200 participants at the annual CAW Women’s Conference in turn Elgin. Ontario took cues from their Brazilian and Australian counterparts forming international alliances with the women trade unionists from other parts of the world. The impassioned speeches of Emilia Valente and Maria Ferreira of the Brazilian union the National Confederation of Metalworkers (CNM/CUT) brought delegates to their feet as they heard about the struggles the unify approach in mobilizing other women and getting women their place at the collective bargaining table. ‘Negotiations are often based on what’s possible instead of what’s necessary,” said Valente emphasizing that women’s and by extension family issues are the first to leave the table.“As women we will not be talking about what’s possible but what we need as citizens and as workers. ” Brazil has no automatic certification system change surface when the majority of workers choose a union so the CNM/CUT may be some workers in a given location and job description but not all making union dues voluntary. The result is unions have to keep mobilizing every day explained Director of Women’s Programs Julie color. “It is worker talking to worker everyday keeping them plugged into the union and building a culture of solidarity that we don’t see in other places. ” Over the four day event from August 19-22 women took part in workshops about political and union organizing – the central themes of the conference. The conference also featured a key-note address by CAW President Buzz Hargrove a spoken word performance by artist Evalyn Parry as come up as
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