By Sam Gindin
When Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove makes new pronouncements, they carry weight both within and beyond the labour movement – even when, as has recently been the case, they seem to undermine what Canadian unions have always stood for. What, then, to make of his defiant declaration, in response to the permanent two-tier system negotiated in the United States, that this is “one automotive import that won’t cross the border into Canada” in bargaining this fall? Continue reading ‘Canada-US: Two-tier wages, second-class workers’
