OSHAWA- Unifor members are currently engaged in an action at General Motors headquarters in Oshawa in response to the company’s continued resistance to upholding the commitments of the 2016 collective agreement.

“The solidarity shown today proves once again, Unifor members are united in our resistance to corporate greed,” said Colin James, President of Unifor Local 222. “This union is a family. We are fiercely united in our support of one another, and of the Oshawa auto community.”

Local 1996-O supporting our Brothers and Sisters

Greetings,

 

This week, members of our union took decisive action and began a direct action at GM headquarters in Oshawa.

 

Attached to this email you will find yesterday’s update from the Local 222 committee, where you will see the new information about the week’s action and ongoing issues with GM’s refusal to live up to the collective agreement.

 

Thank you for your continued activism and support for workers affected by a closure.

GM update Jan 23 2019 final

by The Canadian Press

Posted Jan 23, 2019 2:59 pm EST

Unifor members engage in an action at General Motors headquarters in Oshawa, Ont., on Jan. 23, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

The head of Unifor has ruled out a potential boycott of General Motors in the campaign to save the Oshawa Assembly Plant.

Speaking at a union rally in front of GM Canada’s Oshawa office, Unifor president Jerry Dias says the union will never call for an outright boycott of GM products.

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Last week, Unifor’s Quebec director Renaud Gagne said there were no plans to boycott GM, but that it may be a solution the union will have to consider.

The union also released an Ekos Research poll last week noting that 45 per cent of Canadians support an outright boycott of GM.

Dias says he supports the products union members make at GM in Canada, but objects to the company’s shifting of production to Mexico.

He says the union will have a press conference on Friday as it continues its fight to save the Oshawa plant that GM plans to shut down later this year.

 

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