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FeatureFord confirms C$700m spend as Unifor members ratify wage deal
Ford Canada’s employees have voted in favour of a four-year agreement that the company has since confirmed includes a C$700m ($523m) investment at its operations in the country.Details remain scarce, but a spokesperson told Automotive Logistics that C$600m of the planned investment was earmarked for the engine manufacturing site in ...
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FeatureFord and Unifor reach tentative labour agreement in Canada
Ford and Canada’s Unifor labour union have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year national labour contract covering more than 6,400 employees.The deal comes after similar recent agreements between Canada’s largest union and carmakers General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), completing the round of wage negotiations between the union ...
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FeatureFCA strikes new labour deal with Canadian union
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has agreed a new four-year deal with Canadian union Unifor that includes a commitment to invest $325m in a rebuild of the carmaker’s Brampton assembly plant paint shop and a $6.4m investment in upgrading equipment at the Etobicoke casting plant.The contract also involves two wage increases of ...
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FeatureWorkers protest at XPO shareholder meeting over job losses
XPO Logistics has been accused of “mismanaging the integration of its new businesses” by the international Teamsters union, which is helping to organise a protest by workers from both the US and Europe outside the company’s shareholder meeting in Greenwich, Connecticut today (May 11th).XPO has so far not issued any ...
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Strike action hits XPO Logistics sites in France
Logistics employees affiliated with the French trade union CFDT are taking strike action at a number of XPO Logistics facilities across France. The strike, which started at a site in the Ile-de-France area last week, has since been extended to 20 of the company’s 75 supply chain locations in the ...