The stroke of midnight Tuesday brought with it another stroke of labor strife to General Motors Co. as its union workforce in Canada walked off their jobs. Unifor, the union representing Canadian autoworkers, had set the deadline to reach a tentative contract agreement by then or its members would strike.
The new strikes in Canada come only four days after GM saved itself from suffering an additional walkout in the U.S. by the United Autoworkers at its highly profitable full-size SUV assembly plant in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas.Prosecutor Questioned Biden About Classified Documents Bigger than the differences between poutine and coney dogs, are the strategies in which the negotiations are being conducted.
In this case, Ford was Unifor's target company. The two sides reached a tentative agreement just ahead of a strike deadline and union members quickly ratified the contract.In the U.S. that traditional playbook was burned like scrap paper in the barrels keeping workers on the picket lines warm.