Close to 4,300 autoworkers at GM's Oshawa assembly plant, St. Catharines propulsion plant, and Woodstock parts distribution centre had gone on strike at midnight after the company resisted the terms set out in the Ford deal.
Workers at the three operations were expected to go back to work Tuesday afternoon, while Unifor said ratification votes would be scheduled in the coming days. "We knew that getting this pattern was going to be an uphill battle because of the economic significance of the Ford agreement." Both the move away from temporary part-time workers, and the improved pensions, are significant cost items for GM, said Stephanie Ross, an associate professor of Labour Studies at McMaster University.Industry analyst Sam Fiorani said GM has more senior-level workers than Ford so the terms are more expensive for it to meet.
"Every lost Silverado and Silverado HD unit is worth tens of thousands of dollars of profit ... every lost unit is felt on the bottom line."
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