Caterpillar to Close Ontario Locomotive Plant Where Workers Resisted Wage Cut
Submitted on February 4, 2012
By Keith Jones - 4 February 2012
Caterpillar subsidiary Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) has announced that it is transforming the lockout at its London, Ontario diesel-locomotive manufacturing facility into a plant closure...Six weeks ago, Caterpillar locked out the 465 production workers at its London plant after they overwhelmingly rejected the company's demands for a 55 percent wage cut, the elimination of their pension plan, and other sweeping concessions.
