G.M. and Union in Canada Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike
The dispute flared up amid rising tensions between Canada
and the Trump administration over the future of the North American Trade Agreement and increasing Canadian worries about losing factory jobs to lower-wage plants in Mexico.
Workers at G. M.’s plant in Ingersoll went on strike last month to protest the shift of some production to Mexico
that led to the loss of about 600 Canadian production jobs.
General Motors and Canada’s largest trade union have reached a tentative agreement in a labor dispute
that has idled an Ontario plant that makes a popular sport utility vehicle, the Chevrolet Equinox.
Canada has lost thousands of auto industry jobs over the last decade as automakers have
rushed to build a string of new plants in Mexico and in the southern United States.
