The contract Unifor negotiated with Ford was ratified by a majority of members but rejected by skilled trade workers.
Ford workers in Oakville, Ont. arrive for a meeting with Unifor leadership on Monday.
"There's some real big questions out there and it turns out that a lot of the trades people between Windsor and Oakville have turned down the contract," said Anton Mesic, a Ford worker in Oakville. The contract also includes a cost of living allowance capped at $2 an hour over three years and increases the employers contributions to the pension plan to seven per cent of an employees earnings, capped at 2,080 hours.On Monday, skilled trade workers were brought to an in-person meeting in Oakville to go over details of the agreement.
"Unifor is meeting outside of the bargaining process with Skilled Trades members in both Oakville and Windsor this week to review issues."Barry Eidlin is a labour professor at McGill University who has been watching the auto negotiations in Canada and the United States. Eidin said that the deal between Unifor and Ford, which both call historic, needs to be looked at in the context of inflation.
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