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Jun 11, 2016

STRIKES * Canada - Auto workers will strike if needed

* Ontario - Negotiations that it hasn’t had since at least 2006

--- The fate of the Canadian auto industry and its tens of thousands of jobs is at stake this summer as Unifor enters contract negotiations with the Detroit automakers, according to union leader Jerry Dias... Unlike its United Auto Workers counterpart in the United States, Unifor’s main issue during the negotiations won’t be increasing wages, it will be keeping plants open. Still, Dias said, the union will strike, if necessary... “The reality is if we don’t solidify the footprint, there’s going to be strikes in Canada,” Dias told The Detroit News during a recent phone interview. “There’s no way around it. I don’t have any choice. The way we look at it, we have nothing to lose.”.. An ally Unifor believes it has in this round of negotiations that it hasn’t had since at least 2006 is the Canadian government...
(Photo from Wikipedia: A Western Star 4700SB)   --  Toronto, ONT, CAN - The Detroit News, by Michael Wayland - June 9, 2016

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