While rooted in Ontario's large auto plants of Windsor, Brampton, Oakville, St. Catharines and Oshawa, the CAW has in recent years expanded and now incorporates workers in almost every sector of the economy.

Under White and Hargrove, the CAW has moved toward the European model of social unionism and away from American business unionism.

The CAW is strongly left leaning and it has traditionally been a strong supporter of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ) and the Bloc Québécois ( Bloc ).

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has asked that CAW wages be reduced to the levels of non-unionized workers from Honda and Toyota operating in Canada, or else they would walk away from the proposed alliance with Chrysler, resulting in the latter being forced into bankruptcy.

Since that election, the tactical nature of the relationship between some unions and the NDP has even further degraded to their point where the Canadian Auto Workers Union ( CAW ) has, since the late 1990s, supported the Liberal Party federally and in Ontario provincial elections.

Given the size of the CAW with the Canadian labour movement, the CAW's support for the Liberals has caused significant problems for the CLC leadership in continuing to follow the Congress ' policy of NDP support.

At one time up to a third of their operating funds coming the Canadian Auto Workers, but the CAW cut most of its funding after the Flaherty action ( Shantz, 2009 ) and OCAP has since had to engage in raising funds from individuals in order to pay its organizers.

The CAW has attempted several times to organize TMMC.

CAW then served for several years as an umbrella organization for its subsidiaries.

In 2000, the CAW was expelled from the Canadian Labour Congress when several union locals left the SEIU and joined the CAW, prompting accusations of union raiding.

The CAW retaliated by severing all union ties with the NDP, a move formalized at the CAW's 2006 convention.

The relatively high wages of unionized auto workers in the U. S. and Canada ( members of the UAW and CAW, respectively ), compared to the low wages of non-union workers at non-U. S. companies like Toyota, made it unprofitable for the U. S. auto makers to build small cars.

CAW unionized the Ford Motor Company in 1945 after the a major strike which established the right of Canadian labour union members to dues checkoff.

The Canadian Auto Workers ( CAW ; formally the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada ) is one of Canada's largest and highest profile social unions.

In 1998, the CAW was deeply involved in discussions with Volvo Canada LTD. and the Government of Nova Scotia over the closure of the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant.

The CAW negotiated a cost-cutting deal with General Motors Canada on March 8, 2009.

LaSorda told the Canadian House of Commons finance committee that he would demand an hourly wage cut of $ 20, suggested that Chrysler may withdraw from Canada if it fails to achieve more substantial cost savings from the CAW.

* Boeing Canada – Local 1967, CAW Local 2169

Hargrove retaliated by severing ties with the NDP at the annual CAW convention.

These cutbacks led to a falling-out with both the public sector unions, most notably Ontario Public Service Employees Union ( OPSEU ), and the Canadian Auto Workers ( CAW ) and its leader Buzz Hargrove.

Relations with the CAW remain especially fraught, and memories of the social contract have hurt the NDP's credibility with a new generation of public sector workers, despite the party's efforts to distance itself from the measure. Nonetheless, the Ontario NDP remained in third place in the Legislative Assembly and did not see a recovery in its level of support until a decade and a half after the Rae government's 1995 defeat.

The Church of All Worlds ( CAW ) is a neopagan religious group whose stated mission is to evolve a network of information, mythology, and experience that provides a context and stimulus for reawakening Gaia and reuniting her children through tribal community dedicated to responsible stewardship and evolving consciousness.

The key founder of CAW is Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, who serves the Church as " Primate ", later along with his wife, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, designated High Priestess.

CAW was formed in 1962, evolving from a group of friends and lovers who were in part inspired by a fictional religion of the same name in the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; the church's mythology includes science fiction to this day.

CAW began in 1961 with a group of high school friends.

It was during this time that the group they formed read Heinlein ’ s science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, which became the inspiration for CAW.

Zell formed CAW from Atl, and filed for incorporation as a church in 1967.

CAW modeled its organization after the group in Heinlein's novel, as a series of 9 nests in circles of advancement that were each named after a planet.

By 1970, CAW placed greater emphasis on ecology and nature, applying the term pagan to nature-lovers in general, regardless of religion.

Moving toward an emphasis on nature eventually led to a breaking of the relationship between CAW and Atl.

By 1974, CAW had nests in more than a dozen states around the United States.

Led by Maerian Morris another former High Priestess of CAW, working from Delphi, The reactivation of Delphi was the subject of a series of six editorials in Green Egg ( issues 125 through 130 ) from November / December 1998 through September / October 1999.

In 1978 CAW merged with Nemeton, a Pagan organization founded by Gwydion Pendderwen and Alison Harlow.

and although we have attempted to provide these status symbols, support of the ' dual-ladder ' plan has been half-hearted despite the creation of a salary potential for a research scientist commensurate with that of men in top managerial positions.

But, up to now, no one has attempted to analyze its inherent mathematical properties, or the numerical significance of its numbers -- singly or in combination -- and then tried to consider these in the light of Old Chinese cosmological concepts.

More recently, Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to reform what he calls the Aristotelian tradition in a way that is anti-elitist and capable of disputing the claims of both liberals and Nietzscheans.

In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.

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Only when the side-effects have become too severe and / or a patient has been symptom-free for a long period of time is discontinuation carefully attempted.

He is a practicing idealist who, after years of attempted heroism, is tired of crusading and has come to the Cookie Jar to retire.

** SBA / ATT — Stolen base attempts: total number of times the player has attempted to steal a base ( SB + CS )

Sabine Ulibarri, an author from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, once attempted to note that " Chicano " was a politically " loaded " term, although Ulibarri has recanted that assessment.

Since 1978, the Communist Party has attempted to institutionalize transitions of power and consolidate its internal structure.

The popularity of the term deconstruction combined with the technical difficulty of Derrida's primary material on deconstruction and his reluctance to elaborate his understanding of the term has meant that many secondary sources have attempted to give a more straightforward explanation than Derrida himself ever attempted.

Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ( WDF ).

The Historian Procopius, in his Secret History, claims that the emperor Justinian attempted to interfere with the Jewish calendar in the 6th century, and a modern writer has suggested that this measure may have been directed against the protopaschites.

Beginning with a nascent judicial system, and an education system in shambles, it has attempted to build the institutions of government from scratch, with varying success.

It has been said that Ceithlenn got wounded in battle by an arrow and attempted to swim across the river but she never reached the other side.

Some workers in the field have also attempted to formulate hidden variable theories that exploit loopholes in actual experiments, such as the assumptions made in interpreting experimental data, although no theory has been proposed that can reproduce all the results of quantum mechanics.

In the past 16 years, Guinea Bissau has experienced two coups, a civil war, an attempted coup, and a presidential assassination by the military.

The Government in an effort to structure the public transportation has attempted several time to bring BUS, in around 1979, It was the BUS called CONATRA a contract between the government and association of driver which quickly fail because of sabotage from different factor and poor maintenance.

From archaeological finds in Great Britain, the Romans appeared to have attempted to protect their horses ' feet with a strap-on, solid-bottomed " hipposandal " that has a slight resemblance to the modern hoof boot.

Malaysia has since maintained a delicate ethno-political balance, with a system of government that has attempted to combine overall economic development with political and economic policies that promote equitable participation of all races.

Since 1990, Hezbollah has been accused of the following attacks and attempted attacks.

Paul Williams has also noted that the Mahāyāna never had nor ever attempted to have a separate Vinaya or ordination lineage from the early Buddhist schools, and therefore each bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī adhering to the Mahāyāna formally belonged to an early school.

Prevalence is difficult to generalize, but research has estimated 10 – 15 % of the general population as having at least one such sexual contact, with less than 2 % involving intercourse or attempted intercourse.