Ontario local union head says national leadership not stepping up for auto workers

APMA
Jan 9
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Ethan Lang, CBC News

Jan 7, 2025

GM’s Oshawa local union president, Jeff Gray, voiced concerns that union leadership is not doing enough for its members. Meanwhile, APMA President Flavio Volpe acknowledged the limits of Canada’s influence, saying, “There’s a certain helplessness in dealing with national security tariffs imposed by a White House that doesn’t want to negotiate its way out of it. But it's not like other crises that we've been able to control the levers. The levers are not controlled in Ottawa. Their levers are not Canadian. There's a certain helplessness and hopelessness at times because of it.”

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