More than 38,000 join CAW in protest

More than 38,000 protesters participated in a rally organized by the Canadian Auto Workers union to show their concern for the loss of manufacturing jobs in southern Ontario. The rally was organized to bring to light the importance of automotive manufacturing jobs to the Canadian economy.
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mp2dtwmp2dtw - 5/28/2007 10:12:58 PM
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One manufacturing job in Windsor supports 12 non-manufacturing jobs? I think that article must be misquoting the CAW.

While it seems manufacturing jobs are leaving Ontario at a slower rate than Michigan, the unfortunate truth is that our government's policies are encouraging companies to close here and open in China and elsewhere. Some might call this free enterprise. I call it societal suicide. Henry Ford was smart enough to know that workers need to be paid well enough to purchase what they produce. Otherwise, we all head into a downward spiral towards the 19th century.


EnnNorakEnnNorak - 5/29/2007 11:18:42 AM
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I briefly worked with a couple of hundred union guys overhauling aircraft engines, As a summer student, I was not a union member. I could take a Rolls Royce turbojet Nene engine out of its sealed container and strip it down to every last nut and bolt all by myself in one day shift while it took the other 3 guys in the strip section (all union members) to do the exact same thing in the same time. Needless to say, when I went back to school, the output of overhauled engines dropped in half. The union guys were constantly pressuring me to slow down.


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