ContractFramework of Fairness Agreement • September 6th, 2020
Contract Type FiledSeptember 6th, 2020On October 15, 2007, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Magna International, Inc. (Magna) entered into a historic agree- ment entitled, “Framework of Fairness Agreement” (FFA).1 The FFA “went further than any other Canadian neutrality agreement in terms of the organizing benefits it conferred on the CAW,”2 creating what York University Professor David Doorey has called “a remarkable scenario for CAW organizers, completely at odds with the environment they would be used to operating under in almost every other organizing campaign.”3 Nevertheless, the FFA has been extremely controversial among unions and their supporters in Canada. Although approved by the CAW Council on December 7, 2007,4 there was significant dissent within the