Caterpillar Destroys Homes from Ontario to Palestine: Standing Up to Corporate Bullies
Submitted on January 14, 2012
By David Heap - January 13, 2012
Caterpillar has an ugly history of using strong-arm union-bashing tactics to roll back wages, close plants and move manufacturing to lower-wage jurisdictions. They also supply equipment, like the D9 armoured bulldozer, which is used by the Israeli army to destroy Palestinian homes. The corporation refuses to acknowledge responsibility for the thousands of homes demolished in the West Bank and Gaza using Caterpillar equipment.
