By Mark Schadenberg
INGERSOLL – Cars roll off the assembly line; CAMI is on a roll lately.
Great news in the auto manufacturing business on Sunday as CAMI in
Ingersoll has a deal with its unionized employees.
I certainly don’t know all the facts and figures in the deal, but it
would appear the union’s main point is that it requested as many as 300 ‘temporary’
or ‘non-contract’ employees be invited formally into the fold and are also to
be offered a signing bonus.
Anyone watching the auto industry from a distance – like I do – is always
curious why there are so many 'employees' without any true guarantee that they
are in fact employees of a company. I don’t want to stir the issue too much,
but this is an area where unions certainly do assist workers.
By watching Facebook comments, I know of at least one friend that was in this group of 300. Congrats !
CAMI employees, which number around 2,500 and belong to what is now
called Unifor, voted in favour of the pact on Sunday at a meeting in London.
CAMI assembles the Equinox and Terrain crossover utility
vehicles for General Motors and has been a giant car assembly plant along the 401
in Ingersoll since 1986 and was originally a company shared by both GM and
Suzuki to build vehicles including the Sidekick and Vitara under the Suzuki
names, and Tracker and Metro under the Geo moniker.
Below are current links to newspaper stories from
Woodstock Sentinel-Review and London Free Press.
THE LINKS
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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