TORONTO (CP) - General Motors of Canada has withdrawn a demand for shorter work breaks at its assembly complex in Oshawa but job security at other Ontario plants remains at issue, the Canadian Auto Workers said Tuesday.
The union had hoped to make an announcement at a late-morning media briefing, but that session was postponed, tentatively until early afternoon. CAW president Buzz Hargrove told reporters that one of two issues he had described Monday as potential "show-stoppers" had been settled.
But GM still faced a strike deadline of midnight Tuesday night by 17,000 union members. GM has removed from the table a proposal to trim two minutes from the daily work-break time of assembly workers at its two car plants and one truck plant in Oshawa, east of Toronto.
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