CAW Fights Comerica Bank To Get $2.4 Million Owed To Workers Sacked In Plant Closings

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Workers Independent News

By Doug Cunningham

The Canadian Auto Workers union is fighting Comerica bank to win $2.4 million in severance pay for 80 workers. The workers lost their jobs at a division of Catalina Precision. Comerica is selling the plants to get money owed to the bank while leaving the workers in the cold. Comerica took $2.3 billion in taxpayer bailout money. The CAW’s Gerry Farnham.

: “The bank, along with the client - meaning Catalina - have hijacked the severance and termination pay that's owed to these eighty workers and their families."

Michigan UAW and AFT members are picketing in support of the 80 Canadian workers today at Comerica bank in Detroit. Farnham says the workers occupied their plants and used other direct action tactics to impede the sale of the plants. Farnham vows similar efforts until the workers are paid what they’re owed.

: "There's no alternative. We're left high and dry- the workers are left high and dry. And we have to take on direct action. If we don't do that, we're not gonna end up receiving anything. A lot more places will continue to close up and there has to be a fight."

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[Bitwit1234]

1. Why don't they put a lien on the possessions

of these big CEO's to pay for the pensions and stuff. There is no reason for them to have all those goodies when the company is bankrupt and the employees get left in the dirt.