Ingersoll’s City Council is considering not buying Caterpillar backhoe. Dan Borthwick, President of CAW Local 88 is asking council to … More
Tag: History
EMD Lockout – Hamilton City Council Feb 22, 2012
Please come out and support Sam Merulla’s motion to have the City of Hamilton boycott caterpillar product and services on … More
EMD Lockout – Labour at the Crossroads
A recent article in In These Times by Mike Elk (Jan 30) suggests that the labour movement in Canada is at … More
Who is Douglas R. Oberhelman?
The month before Doug became the CEO of a 42 billion dollar company; Caterpillar purchased EMD for 820 million dollars and … More
EMD Lockout – Timeline
March 19, 2008 – Harper visits the plant June 2010 – The Electro-Motive Facilities is purchased by Caterpillar September 2010 – Caterpillar … More
EMD Lock out – CAW Local 27 is locked out
First Nanticoke, then US Steel and now EMD and Rio Tinto Alcan (Que). In each case, big international companies are using their … More