Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina Avenue (Koffler Institute Building - entrance off Bancroft Avenue).
The form of the lecture will be a debate with Jim Stanford and Charlotte Yates. The working title of the lecture is “Tough Times, New Strategies: Beyond Magna for Union Survival under Globalizaton.”
Comment by:
• Wayne Fraser is director of District 6 (Ontario and Atlantic provinces) of the United Steelworkers.
• Sid Ryan is president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (Ontario).
• Cec Makowski is vice-president of the Ontario region of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
• Sharleen Stewart is president of Local 1.on of the Service Employees International Union.
• Dave Ritchie is Canadian general vice-president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
• Warren (Smokey) Thomas is president of the Ontario Public Sector Employees Union.
Say workers at Windsor Modules won recognition, before union inked no-strike pact with parts maker.
“Industry sources said workers at other Magna plants have expressed opposition to the Framework of Fairness deal.”
from Labour/Le Travail 60, Fall 2007.
from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, 61 (September 2006).
It seems Frank Stronach's dislike for unions (and anything that looks like them) is truly international - even in his native country Workers at Magna plants in AUSTRIA have battled with the Canadian-based company throughout 1999 over management's opposition to government-mandated "works councils." (Works councils are a type of democratic representation, but without full union rights.) Magna has been refusing to allow the councils, pushing instead its own corporate code called the "Magna Charter." The conflict came to a head over the dismissal in the year of a worker who had favoured the creation of a works council at a plant in Styria. A government grant to Magna was suspended as a result, but re-issued after company threats to move work to Germany and Hungary.