Former CAW Official: UAW/GM Deal Is Devastating For Workers - 10/09/07
8th October 2007
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Sam Gindin is a former assistant to the president of the Canadian Auto Workers union and teaches at York University. He says the UAW GM deal in the U.S. further weakens the union by agreeing to pay new hires about half of what current UAW GM workers make while giving GM what it wants on health care without demanding that GM back a single-payer national health care system.
[Gindin 1]: “At any level you could talk about, this is devastating. Giving up things doesn’t guarantee you anything. I mean, that’s the lesson of 25 years. In fact, it just makes you weaker. And then you’re just in a position to give up more.”