Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited and Unifor have reached a new national labour agreement providing significant wage increases, bonuses, additional paid time off, retirement enhancements, significant inflation protection provisions as well as an accelerated grow-in period for new hires.
Members of Canada’s autoworkers union, Unifor, ratified a tentative three-year agreement with Ford on Sunday after the union had reached an 11th-hour agreement last week to avert a possible strike.
There was some positive news in the ongoing labor battle between the Big Three and unionized autoworkers, though it came from north of the border as Ford reached a deal with a Canadian auto workers union, possibly providing some precedent for a deal to be reached here in the US.