Unionized workers at General Motors were expected to finish voting on a new tentative agreement by Sunday. The agreement, reached between Unifor and General Motors on August 22, covers over 4,600 autoworkers in Ontario. Members of the union were voting over the weekend to ratify the tentative agreements.
Unifor National President Lana Payne highlighted that the agreements offer substantial wage and benefit increases for employees at GM’s Oshawa assembly plant, the CAMI facility in Ingersoll, and other operations in St. Catharines and Woodstock. Negotiations between the union and the automaker commenced earlier this month following Unifor’s successful agreement with Ford, which included three percent annual pay raises and the continuation of a no-closure commitment.