What the Auto Industry Means to: Windsor

The Industry

** Windsor has the highest auto industry concentration in Canada with an assembly plant, major engine operations, foundry and casting facilities, a transmission plant and more than 50 other

independent auto parts operations.

** Major employers include: DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Lear, Magna, Ventra, Butcher Engineering, Veltri, Kautex.

** Vehicles assembled in Windsor by DaimlerChrysler: Grand Caravan, Town and Country, Pacifica.

** 359,993 vehicles were built in Windsor in 2005 (or 986 a day.)  Windsor also builds 1 million engines per year (2749 a day), and 884,534 transmissions per year (2423 a day)

** The industry produced vehicles and parts worth an incredible $22 billion in Windsor in 2005 (or $60 million a day).

Jobs and the Local Economy

** The auto industry directly employs 25,000 people in Windsor, one of every six jobs.

** Thousands more jobs are created to supply the industry: jobs in steel, plastics and other manufacturing and services. More jobs are created by the spending power of auto workers’ paycheques.

** The major original equipment manufacturing jobs in the region stimulate an estimated 97,000 jobs throughout the economy.

** Auto workers’ pay cheques pumped $1.5 billion into the Windsor economy in 2005 (or $4.1 million a day).

Supporting our Community

** In 2005, Windsor auto workers paid $320,000,000.00 in federal and provincial income tax (or $878,000.00 a day), funds which support vital public services like health care, education and social services.

** And most auto workers own homes. Based on average property tax rates, Windsor auto workers supported $48 million in municipal taxes in 2005 (or $131,000 a day), helping to pay for local services.

Vital for us All

** The CAW fights for good jobs in the auto industry, which are vital for us all.

The CAW represents 30,000 workers in the Windsor area in several sectors of the economy.

Sources available: e-mail cawcomm@caw.ca