Tag Archives: Unifor

Unifor picks General Motors as target automaker in ongoing labour talks

GM will serve as the template for contracts with Fiat Chrysler and Ford, but an impasse at the bargaining table could also mean a strike at the former, as early as Sept. 19. ...

Autoworkers’ union counting on Ontario to chip in for auto industry investment

The top priority for Unifor is new commitments for Canadian-built vehicles, and Unifor president Jerry Dias says it is "do-or-die time." ...

CN warns it will lock out Unifor workers Monday night without deal

CN says it will lock out 4,800 Unifor members Monday night if no new deal negotiated. ...

Unifor to begin strike vote at CN early next week – strike deadline looms in late March

Unifor plans to begin strike votes at CN next week as railway rejects demands to pay for union political action fund ...

Heard: Unifor truckers claim piece-rate success at the bargaining table

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Happening: 4,100 Unifor members start contract talks with Air Canada

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Heard: Unifor seeks to find buyer for doomed newsprint mill

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Seen: Unifor health workers protest across the province

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Seen: Unifor workers at Navistar parts plant ratify new deal

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Heard: Federal NDP staffers leave Unifor for UFCW over Ontario election squabble

CP has reported that 600 federal NDP staffers felt they couldn't be in a union that didn't unconditionally support their party, a move that comes after months of public discord. ...

Heard: Unifor wants province to crack down on ‘bandit’ taxis

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St. Joseph union swap came down to numbers, not voter dissatisfaction

A vote by 1,400 workers at a London hospital to leave OPSEU in favour of Unifor was hardly surprising, according to Smokey Thomas, who says it went into the vote grossly outnumbered. ...

Happening: Unifor wins vote to represent 1,400 London hospital workers

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Unifor, Bombardier both make concessions to end strike

Employees of Unifor Local 1075 slowly began returning to work over the weekend with their defined benefit plan intact, but with precedent-setting concessions for new workers. ...

Unifor president says biggest victory in first year was helping defeat Hudak

Amid contract talks with companies demanding concessions and pension plan rollbacks to a tough organizing drive at Toyota plants, Dias says he’s proud of helping defeat PCs. ...

Unifor says Bombardier strike may put provincial commitments in jeopardy

Bombardier remains resolute in meeting customer deadlines despite an unsuccessful forced-vote action to end the strike at its Thunder Bay plant. ...

Heard: Unifor rep confident members will reject Bombardier’s forced-vote offer

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Unifor adds to calls for national inquiry into murdered native women

President Jerry Dias calls for political leadership with willingness to 'confront complex issues' behind murders of First Nations women, and also calls for renewal of Canada Health Accord. ...

Heard: Striking Bombardier workers present at TTC board meeting

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Striking Bombardier workers picket TTC, GO Transit

Workers from Bombardier's Thunder Bay plant picket TTC and GO Transit offices in Toronto to compel plant's main customers to reject use of replacement workers. ...

Heard: Unifor’s talks with Extendicare, northern hospitals break off

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Seen: Strike begins at Bombardier transit car plant in Thunder Bay

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Heard: Unifor in talks Monday with hospitals in northern Ontario

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Seen: Unifor says Globe and Mail employees ratify deal that gives them wage hike

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Dias says Unifor will fight ‘politics of fear,’ promises greater union advocacy

Dias doesn’t regret endorsing strategic voting to keep Ontario PCs out of government, and says his organization will continue to play bigger role in Canada's 'social fabric.' ...

Seen: Unifor, CLC presidents visit Oakville picket line

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Heard: Unifor president Dias backs strategic voting

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Unifor temporarily postpones Toyota union vote

Next week's union vote at Toyota will be postponed because of a dispute over how many workers there are at the three plants, Unifor's president says. ...