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In just two days of voting, the Canadian Auto Workers pulled off what the UAW was unable to do in weeks -- convince its membership to vote for yet another set of contract changes with Ford Motor Co. Not only did they agree to the changes in the contract that put them in line with the deals with GM and Chrysler, they did so by voting 83% in favor as opposed to roughly the same percentage in opposition at the UAW plants. Will Ford start to migrate work to Canadian plants?..

Inbetween the proverbial rock and a hard place is where some GM workers find themselves. Asian automakers outsold Detroit’s Big Three in the U.S. for the first time last month as fuel-conscious consumers shunned General Motors Corp...

Declining union membership is not limited to the United States. It's happening north of the border as well. At Canadian automotive assembly plants, 100 per cent of workers 20 years ago belonged to unions...