Posted AT 1:18 PM EDT on 30/08/07
CAW 'shocked' as GM cuts 1,000 jobs
TORONTO — Executives from General Motors “shocked the living hell” out of representatives from the Canadian Auto Workers union on Wednesday when they revealed that they would eliminate about 1,000 jobs in Oshawa, said CAW president Buzz Hargrove at a press conference on Thursday to discuss the cuts.
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