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Members of the Canadian union ratified a three-year contract that includes the commitment for CAMI Assembly in Ingersoll, Ontario, to begin building all-electric delivery vans later this year.
INGERSOLL, ONT. -- Unifor members at CAMI Assembly in Ingersoll, Ont. made it official Monday by ratifying an agreement to convert the plant to Canada's first electric vehicle manufacturer. "We got a ratified deal which is fantastic," says Mike Van Boekel, Unifor Local 88 plant chair. "Overall it was a 91 per cent acceptance, which brings a long-term stability to the plant." However not everyone was happy with the deal. Nine per cent of the 1,900 members voted no, and many others were hesitant. "I do think a lot of people voted 'yes' despite not being really happy with everything and ...
Membership at the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont. is about to get ten years of job security.
CAMI autoworkers should reject Unifor’s attempt to reopen contract with GM Canada! With the contract for about 2,000 autoworkers at General Motors’ CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario set to expire this September, Unifor has called a snap membership meeting on Zoom for this Sunday with the aim of replacing the current contract and ramming through sweeping concessions. This anti-democratic manoeuvre, cooked up by the Unfor union bureaucrats and their partners in corporate management over the holiday period, is designed to stampede workers behind a sell-out agreement that would be rou...