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Ford’s Canadian Workers Ratify Contract
Ford Motor Co.’s 6,700 hourly workers in Ontario have ratified a new four-year contract by a 58% margin, Canada’s Unifor union reports.
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Ford Motor Co.’s 6,700 hourly workers in Ontario have ratified a new four-year contract by a 58% margin, Canada’s Unifor union reports.
The vote was carried primarily by workers at the company’s engine plant in Windsor, who approved it by an 89% margin. Voting Unifor members at Ford’s assembly plant in Oakville rejected the deal by a 55% margin.
Similar four-year contracts won stronger support by General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobile workers during ratification votes in the past prior two months.
Under the agreement Ford will invest $323 million (C$713 million) in its Canadian facilities, mostly to launch a large sole-source engine program at the Windsor factory. As with similar pattern agreements at GM and FCA facilities in Ontario, Ford workers will receive $6,000 bonuses, lump-sum payments of $2,000 in years 2-4 and two 2% wage hike for senior workers.
The contract also will begin to slowly narrow the pay gap between Ford’s veteran and recent-hire workers.
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