File 2023-006/003(02) - Auto Pact

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1 folder of textual records

File consists of information sheets, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, press statements, news bulletins, contact information, and union proposals related to the Auto Pact Agreement of 1965 and its impacts on the Canadian automobile and aeronautics industries. It includes 12 pages of proposed resolutions put forward by the United Auto Workers Unions of Ontario (UAW) and addressed to the Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 343 (OPEIU343) and the relevant government bodies for issues that highlighted women’s roles within workers’ unions, the Auto Pact, medical coverage for workers, full-time employment, autonomy for the Canadian branch of the UAW (an international union), and regulation regarding working hours. It also includes a report presented by Dennis McDermott, Vice-President and Director for the Canadian branch of the UAW to the UAW council, in which he describes the state of the Canadian auto and aeronautics industry in the 7 years since the Auto Pact and criticizes the Waffle group’s stance on nationalizing the auto industry and the Waffle group’s call for workers to seize control of plants that have been shut down, citing the lack of direction from the group after calling for socialist revolution. File also includes Michael Gurstein’s report on the ‘Canadian Auto-parts and Automotive Industry,’ prepared for the York Reseaerch Group. Gurstein’s report includes backgrounding information regarding the auto industry from its founding in the early 1900s to the signing of the pact in 1965 and what the Auto Pact means in the present and for the future of the industry and Canada’s economy. Gurstein’s finidngs are based on data from government publications, statistics and industry publications, which can be found in the appendix of his report.