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Autoworkers on ropes: Union head Bob White, at a news conference yesterday, says he's not overly optimistic about plant staying active once van production moves
Autoworkers on ropes: Union head Bob White, at a news conference yesterday, says he's not overly optimistic about plant staying active once van production moves

Autoworkers on ropes: Union head Bob White, at a news conference yesterday, says he's not overly optimistic about plant staying active once van production moves

Date10/13/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Autoworkers on ropes: Union head Bob White, at a news conference yesterday, says he's not overly optimistic about plant staying active once van production moves.
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Boeing setback: Canadian Auto Workers President Bob White says de Havilland plant, employing 4,300 members of his union, in Downsview cannot be left idle
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