A vote in favour of a new labour contract at a parts factory in Canada avoided a strike that could have hit Chrysler minivan output.
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Workers at Johnson Controls’ Lakeshore, Ontario, factory voted 91.3% in favour of the three-year collective agreement, Dino Chiodo, a local executive of the Canadian Auto Workers union, told Reuters.
Job security was the main issue in the negotiations. The plantmakes overhead interior components for the Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Voyager built at Chrysler’s Windsor assembly plant.
“Understanding the economic conditions that we’re in … we tried to protect what we could with regard to the employees to maintain work for the next three years,” said Chiodo.
The agreement freezes wages and lowers entry wages for new recruits but also includes stronger healthcare protection and improved job security.
