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:: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 ::
BC For Sale: America's Bargain Shopping By Claudia Cornwall, The Tyee
This August, the Canadian IWA voted to merge with the United Steelworkers of America. Gary Kobayashi of local 2171 on Vancouver Island was in favour. He said, “To me it made a lot of sense to be locked into an international union when we’re dealing with an international company. Weyerhaeuser is a typically ugly American corporation. They want to weaken unions, contract out as much as possible, all the typical union-busting tactics. We’ve got an international campaign going against Weyerhaeuser. We wouldn’t have been able to do something like that as a national union.”
Four B.C. locals, however, didn’t see it the same way. In the Prince George local, the opposition to the merger was particularly fierce: 90 percent of the 6,000 members voted no.------------------------------------------- posted 1:06 PM :: reference link ::
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