CAW targets Ford
TORONTO (Sept. 8, 1999] — The Canadian Auto Workers union will target Ford Motor Co. when negotiations on a new labor contract begin this fall. Contracts covering about 49,000 CAW members at DaimlerChrysler, Ford, and General Motors expire Sept. 21.
The results of the CAW/Ford negotiations will set the pattern for for future talks with the other two big automakers. The “target company” is the one most likely to be hit by a strike of if negotiations are unsuccessful.
CAW president Buzz Hargrove told a news conference in Toronto today that, “What we do here sets the standard.”
Any job action taken here in Canada would cause a severe and nearly immediate reaction at most of Ford’s U.S. operations, while doing considerable harm to truckers who service the automaker’s assembly lines.
Hargrove said the strike deadline will be Sept. 21 at midnight.
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