GM workers go on strike in Canada after failing to reach an agreement to revise their collective agreement. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio
Workers at US automaker General Motors have gone on strike in Canada after failing to reach an agreement to revise their collective agreement.
The strike brings together 4,300 members of the Canadian Unifor union who work at two of the company’s assembly plants and more than a dozen parts distribution centers.
“This strike is because General Motors stubbornly refuses to comply with the model agreement,” said Lana Payne, president of the Unifor union, in statements cited by the American newspaper. The Wall Street Journal.
Members of this union hoped to receive a 15% wage increase, which would match what was agreed to with Ford Motor Company in September.
The strike in Canada is in addition to the one that the United Auto Workers (UAW) began in the United States on September 15 and which simultaneously involves General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the three largest automobile companies in the country, with 25,000 unemployed workers. .
UAW President Shawn Fain said last week that General Motors was ahead of its two Detroit rivals by agreeing in writing to include its electric battery plants in the union’s national contract.
Publication date: 10/10/2023
Tags: GM Workers Union Strike Unifor Canada
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