CAW seeks to organize three Dana plants
CAW seeks to organize three Dana plants
Automotive News | March 24, 2008 - 4:38 pm EST
Meetings are expected to be held on Thursday and Friday to decide if about 550 hourly workers at three Dana Canada Corp. plants will join the Canadian Auto Workers Union.
Tentative agreements for workers at Dana Canada plants in the Ontario cities of Oakville, Mount Forest and Brantford were reached on March 20.
Hourly workers at the plants joined the CAW last fall after the union reached a neutrality agreement with Dana’s Canadian division. The agreement allowed hourly workers to unionize without interference from management.
Representatives from Dana operations in the U.S. and Canada were not immediately available for comment.
Dana’s plants in Mount Forest and Oakville make thermal products and the company’s Brantford plant makes drivetrain products, CAW National Representative Jim Woods told Automotive News.
Dana Canada is a unit of Dana Holding Corp., the drivetrain parts supplier based in Toledo, Ohio. The company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the beginning of March.
The UAW, which helped broker a $790 million infusion of capital into the troubled supplier during the reorganization proceedings, has also been in the process of organizing Dana’s U.S. plants.
Dana ranks No. 20 on the Automotive News list of the top 100 global suppliers, with parts sales to automakers of $8.50 billion in 2006.
