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A wildcat strike at GM’s CAMI plant briefly shut down the assembly plant where the GMC Terrain and Chevrolet Equinox are produced.
The strike lasted a mere 2.5 hours. According to the QMI news agency
“…a worker at the plant said the incident started in the morning when [a worker] was raising a concern with a plant supervisor and was ordered to leave the plant along with another union official.
The worker said the walkout affected production at the plant which is running at capacity with three shifts, six days a week.”
The worker in question, Mike van Boekel, is the unit chairperson for Unifor Local 88. He told QMI that as part of the terms of the settlement, he has been asked not to speak about the incident.
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Settlement? Interesting…
“terms of the settlement” Translation – STFU or we won’t let you keep your job.
What’s the current days supply of Terrain and Equinox inventory anyhow? Maybe they’re doing GM a favour…
The Terrain is starting to show its age, for no older than it is. If you remove the lettering from the grille – it’s a small Saturn Outlook from years ago.
That would be the Acadia, not the Terrain.
Nope, I meant what I said.
I thought you meant Acadia, too, especially since the 2013+ Acadia uses the old Outlook body shell, but then I saw you said “small Saturn Outlook”.
Not enough if GM is running 3 shifts a day, 6 days a week. I wonder how much the UAW workers are getting in overtime for working on Saturday?
Good lord, when was the last “wildcat” strike at a GM plant?
Seriously… seeing “wildcat strike” takes me back a ways. Like to Nixon’s days.
Personally I flashed back to the biographies of the auto giants of the days of early unionization pushes.
Henry Ford’s thugs cracking skulls and what not.
@PrincipalDan…That’s a first for the Cami plant. I’m thinking somewhere around 85, Oshawa was down for about two hours.
greaseyknight…..the UAW hasn’t been in Canada since 84, when the CAW was formed. The CAW merged with the paper workers in 2013, and created UNIFOR.
The Cami plant is represented by UNIFOR .The Cami agreement is about 15 to 20 percent less in wages and benifits than the master that covers Oshawa GM. Their agreement does provide time and half for Saturdays.
FYI.. The two Ontario, non union, Toyota plants also make time and half for Saturdays.
And Toyota pays Double time on Sundays as well.
Is GM sure it wasn’t a Hellcat Strike?
As someone unfamiliar with certain labor terms, I thought for a split second the headline was literal.
I was hoping it was!
Oh, I’m going to run right out and buy one of these cars — not.