General Motors and Unifor, a Canadian union, reached a tentative agreement hours after 4,300 workers went on strike on Tuesday at three GM facilities in Canada.
General Motors on Tuesday reached a tentative agreement with Unifor, a Canadian union, ending strikes involving 4,300 workers at three facilities hours after they began. The union said the tentative agreement follows the pattern agreement Unifor reached with Ford last month and includes wage hikes of up to 25%. The strike had threatened the largest U.S. automaker's profitable full-size truck production if it had continued.
Unifor said Ford offered the desired wage hike in its tentative agreement late last month, while also providing wage increases of 10% for the first year followed by increases of 2% and 3% through the second and third year.
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