The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that talks between General Motors and Unifor on a new labour
agreement for workers at Cami
Automotive in Ingersoll,
Ont., are expected to go down to
the wire ahead of a strike deadline
late Sunday.
The Globe's Greg Keenan writes that about 2,500 workers at the
plant assemble the Chevrolet
Equinox crossover. Demand for
the Equinox and its twin, the
GMC Terrain, have kept the
plant operating three shifts a
day, six days a week for the past
several years and made it one of
GM's most productive
and profitable factories.
GM's shift in production of
the Terrain to Mexico this summer
led to the loss of 600 jobs
at the plant.
Unifor president Jerry Dias has
said that workers will go on
strike unless GM earmarks another
vehicle for the plant to
replace Terrain.
A strike would choke off production
of one of GM's hottest-selling
vehicles in one of the
fastest-growing segments of the
market. Equinox sales soared 85
per cent in the U.S. market last
month and jumped 33 per cent
in Canada. Cami contracts have
traditionally fit into pattern bargaining,
where a deal with one
company sets the pattern for
all Unifor-represented automakers.
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