Description: Production has resumed at General Motors’ Oshawa, Ont. assembly plant after a two-day strike by Canadian Auto Workers members at a plant that makes car seats.

Source Reuters Canada

Date: 10/20/2012

Link: http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE89T14020121030

Related links:

• Earlier Globe and Mail story
  
• Lear Corp.
• GM Canada plants
• Canadian Auto Workers union announcement

Questions for discussion:

• What was the immediate cause of this strike?
• What were the issues in this dispute?
• What effect did this strike have on GM operations?
• What effect do you think the strike had on the tentative resolution of this dispute?
• What arguments can you think of in favour of and against workers’ concessions at the Lear plant?