Description: The Canadian Auto Workers union is trying again to organize workers at Toyota plants in Ontario.

Source: The Globe and Mail

Date: 01/09/2013

Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/caw-seeks-to-recoup-lost-membership/article7066923/

Related links:

• Windsor Star blog post
• Kitchener Waterloo Record story
• CAW
• Toyota Canada
• Earlier update

Questions for discussion:

• What reasons does this story give for the CAW wanting to organize Toyota and Honda workers?
• What happened in past attempts to organize Toyota workers?
• Consult your text: what rules govern an organizing drive like this?
• If you were a union organizer, what reasons would you give for joining the CAW?
• What arguments do you think someone opposed to this drive might offer?