Rank and File.ca is publishing a very informative series of interviews with members of the new Unifor union in Canada. I enclose the latest R&F bulletin below outlining the series to date.
I highly recommend listening to the interview with Lindsay Hinshelwood. She is an autoworker at Ford Oakville who ran for the presidency of the new union against the ‘old boys’ club’ that she says runs it, winning 18%.
Hinshelwood is a harsh critic of the two-tier wages that the CAW has begun to accept in the auto plants in Canada as well as other policies of the union. She says autoworkers in Canada have a lot to learn from the opposition movement in the UAW in the United States and the two should be working together closely to confront corporate power.
RA
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‘Unifor Interview Series: Lindsay Hinshelwood, Local 707’
Rank and File.ca continues our weeklong series of interviews with Unifor union leaders, staff, and rank-and-file members. Today we speak with Lindsay Hinshelwood, an assembly line worker at Ford Oakville and a member of Unifor Local 707, formerly of the Canadian Autoworkers.
Lindsay is a rank-and-file Unifor member who ran from the floor for president of Unifor at its… Read the full story and the rest of the Unifor interview series at:
http://rankandfile.ca/2013/09/13/unifor-interview-series-lindsay-hinshelwood-local-707/
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