Lewenza reportedly to step down as head of CAW

Canadian Auto Workers President Ken Lewenza will reportedly announce on Thursday that he's stepping down in September.

Media reports late Wednesday also said Dave Coles, the president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, will also resign.

The CAW and the CEP voted last year to merge and both unions will hold a news conference in Toronto on Thursday to make an announcement about leadership.

Reports say Lewenza and Coles are expected to endorse senior CAW official Jerry Dias as president of the new combined union, called Unifor.

Dias has worked his way up the CAW ranks during the last 35 years. He's one of Lewenza's top assistants.

Lewenza was elected the national president of the CAW in 2008, replacing Buzz Hargrove, and Coles has been president of the CEP since 2006.

The new union will represent more than 300,000 workers across roughly 20 sectors of the economy, primarily in manufacturing, communications and transportation. Unifor will be the country's biggest private sector union.

During an earlier interview with CBC News, when he was working on merger plans, Lewenza indicated that leading a union is getting tougher.

"We got the privilege of representing the workers, they got the privilege of putting us in putting us out," Lewenza said. "But at the end of the day, man, it's a bigger job today than it was 40 years ago."

Unifor will also represent some public sector employees in the health, education and transit sectors.

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