Recently the Canadian Union Unifor and Stellantis have agreed to a temporary agreement ending a brief strike that began after a deal which wasn’t reached.
The Canadian work strike involved more than 8,200 autoworkers at many facilities in the Canadian province of Ontario, including two large assembly plants which produces the Chrysler 300 sedan, the Dodge Challenger, Pacifica minivan, and the Charger muscle cars.
The strike and the temporary deal, which must be approved by union members, happened two days after Stellantis reached a temporary deal for about 43,000 U.S. autoworkers with the United Auto Workers union after about six weeks of targeted strikes which began on the 15th of September.
Details of the temporary agreement between Unifor and Stellantis were not available immediately. The deal was patterned off a ratified agreement between the union and Ford Motor.
That deal included for up to 25%, hourly wage increases, reactivation of a cost-of-living allowance to combat inflation and a shorter progression for workers to reach top pay, among other new or altered benefits.
In a statement Stellantis North America COO Mark Stewart said that he is very proud of the negotiating teams and grateful for their commitment and focused effort in reaching a temporary agreement with Unifor.
Unifor National President Lana Payne on X, formerly known as Twitter, thanked the bargaining committee and members. The Canadian work strike and the temporary deal which occurred, nearly three weeks after Unifor launched a roughly 12-hour national strike against General Motors, after the sides failed to reach a temporary agreement by a union-set deadline.
At the Detroit Unifor represents 18,000 Canadian workers, took a more traditional method to its negotiations than its U.S. counterpart. The Canadian union is negotiating with each and every automaker individually and using a deal which was first reached last month with Ford as a pattern for GM and Stellantis. That traditional patterned-bargaining method which runs counter to the UAW’s new strategy of bargaining with all three automakers at once. The American auto union have agreed a temporary agreement with Ford and Stellantis but not GM.
