The Lockout at Caterpillar
Caterpillar workers strike in Joliet, Illinois
By Matthew Brennan, May 2, 2012
After rejecting a new six-year contract, nearly 800 machinists at a Caterpillar plant in Joliet, Illinois went on strike early Tuesday morning.
Caterpillar workers accept severance deal in London, Ontario plant closure
By Carl Bronski, March 3, 2012
Locked-out workers at Caterpillar’s Electro-Motive plant in London, Ontario voted overwhelmingly to accept a severance deal presented to them by Canadian Auto Workers union officials last week.
Workers at Ontario Caterpillar plant voice outrage over lockout and closure
By Lee Parsons, February 13, 2012
A WSWS reporting team spoke with picketers outside the Caterpillar-owned Electro-Motive Diesel plant last Friday—one week after the company announced it was transforming a six-week lockout into a plant closure.
Fight Ontario Caterpillar plant closure! Unite North American workers against wage-cutting!
By Keith Jones, February 9, 2012
Caterpillar's decision to close its London, Ontario locomotive plant exemplifies the ruthlessness of big business and the urgency of workers in North America and around the world uniting their struggles against the corporate offensive on jobs, wages and workers’ rights.
Caterpillar to close Ontario locomotive plant where workers resisted wage cut
By Keith Jones, February 4, 2012
Caterpillar subsidiary Electro-Motive Diesel has announced that it is transforming the lockout at its London, Ontario diesel-locomotive manufacturing facility into a plant closure.
Ontario premier feigns support for locked out Electro-Motive workers
By Keith Jones, February 2, 2012
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s intervention in the Electro-Motive lockout is a reactionary ploy. His aim is to assist the CAW in securing a concessions–filled contract and enlist the cooperation of Ontario’s unions in imposing sweeping social spending cuts.
The unions and the lockouts at Cooper Tire and Caterpillar
By Joseph Kishore, January 24, 2012
As the lockouts of Cooper Tire workers in Ohio and Caterpillar workers in Ontario enter their ninth and fourth weeks, the unions are working deliberately to isolate the struggles and ensure defeat.
“We need every worker from around the world to have a day of action against Caterpillar”
By a WSWS reporting team, January 23, 2012
Locked-out Electro-Motive workers and their supporters spoke to the WSWS at a January 21 support rally in London, Ontario.
Thousands rally to support Ontario Electro-Motive workers
By Carl Bronski, January 23, 2012
Ten thousand workers and young people rallied in London, Ontario last Saturday to support workers at the local Caterpillar-owned diesel locomotive plant who have been locked out after refusing to accept a more than 50 percent cut in pay.
Some hard truths about the unions’ “Day of Action” for Ontario Electro-Motive workers
By Keith Jones, January 21, 2012
Almost exactly one year ago, union and NDP leaders gave fiery speeches at a “Day of Action” organized to support locked-out US Steel workers in Hamilton, Ontario. They then systematically isolated the steelworkers’ struggle, ultimately imposing a concessions-laden contract on them.
Illinois Caterpillar workers discuss London, Ontario lockout
By Shane Ferratu, James Nykvist, January 14, 2012
WSWS correspondents spoke with Illinois Caterpillar workers about the lockout of Caterpillar workers in London, Ontario.
US, Canadian workers locked out for opposing wage cuts
By Andre Damon, January 7, 2012
The new year begins with major industrial lockouts in Ontario, Quebec and Ohio.
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