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Made in Canada matter: Buzz Hargrove

(CNW) Buzz Hargrove, the president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union, in his Labour Day message encourages Canadians to buy Canadian. The CAW and other unions have launched a "Made in Canada Matters" campaign.

(CNW) Buzz Hargrove, the president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union, in his Labour Day message encourages Canadians to buy Canadian.


The CAW and other unions have launched a "Made in Canada Matters" campaign.

 Its goal is  to protect Canadians by keeping jobs in Canada.

"Workers in Canada and throughout the world are engaged in an unprecedented struggle against an ideology that celebrates unlimited profits and greed as the most important social values. Under this ideology, people are consumers, not citizens, " says  Hargrove.


 "Globalization" sells itself falsely on promises of individual freedom and democracy, but the real agenda is to increase profits for the wealthy few, not to build a more caring, just society for the many.

Globalization threatens to dismantle what unions have won for workers, as well as threaten jobs, working conditions, wages, pensions and benefits, he said.

"This Labour Day, ...we come to celebrate the work of organized labour in support of better wages, better working conditions, stronger pension plans, progressive labour legislation, the protection of public institutions, rights and freedoms, peace, equality, democracy, respect and solidarity. 


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