Our goal is to create a safe and engaging place for users to connect over interests and passions. In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commentingAir Canada begins a new contract with PAL Airlines on Nov. 1, leading to the layoffs of 54 employees in Newfoundland and Labrador.
DETROIT — General Motors' first wage-and-benefit offer to the United Auto Workers on Thursday fell far short of the union's initial demands. The offer comes just a week before the UAW's national contracts with GM, Stellantis and Ford expire, and even though both sides are far apart, it's a sign of movement on economic issues. Still, union President Shawn Fain called the offer “insulting.
Leaders of a bargaining unit that represents Toronto high school teachers say they are opposed to a proposed deal between their union and the province that would use voluntary binding arbitration, instead of a strike, to resolve outstanding issues.
With the United Auto Workers seeking stronger offers from the Detroit Three automakers, some Windsor auto workers say they, too, want more money and better pensions out of the negotiations happening on this side of the border."I live cheque to cheque," Marco Verro said, outside the Windsor Assembly Plant on Friday. " I never thought, being from a Big Three family, that I'd be living cheque to cheque working at Fords or Chryslers like my father worked at.