We did a little survey of our members and their 80,000-plus employees—let's say about half of them are represented from Toronto to London and the other half from London to Windsor—incidence of organized labour, and then the difference in prices. We surveyed members representing 39,000 employees, about a 50% sample size. We found 14% union representation overall. The number was 17% from London to Windsor, and it was about 10.5% from London to Toronto. We found that the western end of that geography was the most difficult place to keep staff and employees, but the incidence of turnover in non-specialized business was in the single digits, and so people still stay, regardless of it, as the more skilled people get poached. These are good wages that people more or less gravitate to, especially in towns where they have.... Unlike Windsor, for example, where you have a real concentration of hundreds of companies and some choice, if you're in Ridgetown, you're either at KSR International or you're not, and so it's different from town to town.
Evidence of meeting #27 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was automotive.
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