Ottawa (awp/afp) – The Canadian automobile union Unifor announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement in principle with the European manufacturer Stellantis, particularly on wages, just a few hours after the strike began.
The union representing about 8,200 workers at the Stellantis factories in Windsor and Brampton in southern Ontario, Canada’s industrial heartland, announced its members would go on strike Sunday evening after pay negotiations with the group collapsed.
A few hours later, Unifor announced that it had reached an agreement with Stellantis.
The two parties “continued to work throughout the night to resolve unresolved issues that remained on the table,” union President Lana Payne said in a statement.
The details of the agreement were not disclosed, but the president assured that it “addresses both the union’s main economic demands and the specific requests made to Stellantis.”
The workers demanded an increase in wages and an improvement in pensions.
The union pressured Stellantis and General Motors (GM) to follow the model set by Unifor in previous negotiations for new contracts at Ford.
After a 14-hour strike, an agreement was reached with General Motors in early October. It provides for an increase in the basic hourly wage by almost 20% for production and 25% for specialist trades during the contract term. The agreement also granted permanent status to all full-time temporary workers.
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