FRAMEWORK OF FAIRNESS AGREEMENTFramework of Fairness Agreement • October 15th, 2007
DevelopmentsFramework of Fairness Agreement • November 28th, 2007
Magna International is an auto parts manufacturer employing over 18,000 people in 45 Canadian plants. Frank Stronach is the founder and chairman of the board of Magna. Magna has been known for its human resource practices aimed at avoiding unionization, including an Employee Charter that promises employees a number of items including competitive compensation, and a hotline for employee complaints. The Canadian Auto Workers union has 260,000 members in Canada. The CAW has attempted to organize Magna employees; however, those efforts have not been successful - only three Magna plants have been organized.
World Socialist Web Site wsws.orgFramework of Fairness Agreement • June 22nd, 2022
ContractFramework of Fairness Agreement • September 6th, 2020
On 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
