Latest News Around the Local
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McMaster Labour Studies
After the US Elections: Which Way Forward for Workers? Nov 14 & 21, 6:30-9:30 pm The US presidential election takes...
General Membership Meeting
General Membership Meeting Unifor Local 199 has scheduled a General membership Meeting Wednesday 19th of October @ 6 pm. 124...
Retiree Report – Sept 2016
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT: September 2016 by Barb Abrams. I hope that everyone had a safe summer. We all know that...
Labour Day 2016
Labour Day in St Catharines was a great success, we had an excellent turn out at the parade and festivities...
Labour Day Parade & Party
LABOUR DAY PARADE, Invitation for Members Family & Friends The Executive Board would like to invite you your family...
2nd Unifor Convention Delegate Report
The second Unifor Convention was held on August 22 – 26, 2016, at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa. Over the...
Labour Day 2017
The Executive Board of Unifor Local 199 would like to invite all of our members and their families to celebrate...
Gatesy Golf Tournament
GATESY LABOUR DAY CLASSIC You are invited to participate in the first annual Wayne Gates Labour Day Weekend Golf Classic...
Contract Talks To Start
TORONTO, Aug. 8, 2016 /CNW/ – Formal contract talks between Unifor and the Detroit Three automakers begin this week, starting with...
Assemble-Rite Ratifies New Contract
August 4th 2016, Unifor 199 members at Assemble-Rite ratified a new three-year agreement. The new agreement includes wage increase of...
18th Annual Show & Shine
18th Annual GM Powered Show n’ Shine featuring over 500 GM powered vehicles takes place on Friday, August 5th, 2016...
Time for Automakers to Invest in Canada
Aug 3, 2016 Published Wednesday August 3, 2016 in the Huffington Post In one week, Unifor will begin its first-ever...
GM Chair Report August 2016
GM Chair Report August 2016 August 3, 2016 Collective Bargaining 101 For many of our members, especially those just entering...
A1 STATUS T Shirts
Order your A1 Status Shirts The Young workers committee has designed T shirts for 2016 bargaining, The shirts are black...
AUTOTALKS16
Invest in Canada Invest in good jobs. Invest in the future. Invest in our communities. Invest in innovation. Invest in...
Labour Day Parade
Labour Day Parade and Party Mark Monday the 5th of September on your calendar. To celebrate Labour Day Local 199...
Autotalks – July / August 2016
Just the Facts – Autotalks 2016 Unifor National office is producing a newsletter to update our members about the 2016...
First Community Partner
The Young Workers Committee are excited to announce we have made our first community partnership with RAFT. In todays society we have...
GM Chair Report June 2016
GM Chair Report June 2016 New hire Healthcare Benefits. All GM new hires please note that your HC benefits cover...
Website Redesign
Local 199 has just redesigned the local union website, the Young Workers Committee has their own page and an area where we can post articles, links and information that will be of interest to young workers. We would like to invite you to tell us what you would like to see posted, send your ideas and suggestions to Jake and Melodie.
Young Workers Conference
July 13th 2016, Two members of the young workers committee, Jake McCready & Melodie Zarlenga , attended the Young Workers...
What the Auto Industry Means to Niagara
This Article was posted a year ago but the information is so good it is worth sharing again. The Industry...
Unifor National NEWS
The unifor National Union regularly produces news stories about important events and issues that are of interest to our membership, the public, academics, journalists and others. These news stories are posted on the CAW website with the most recent stories at the top. For current news articles and links visit the following link
Many of these stories are also prepared as press releases and sent out over the Canada News Wire. Press releases syndicated through the CNW Group can be found on the Newswire.ca website.
Archived Editions 199 News
Please click on the links below to open the 199 News
- CAW Local 199 News – November / December 2008
- CAW Local 199 News – September – October 08
- CAW Local 199 News – May / June 08
- CAW Local 199 News – January February 2008
- CAW Local 199 News – December 2007