{"id":867837,"date":"2026-08-22T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:44:10","slug":"unifor-general-motors-reach-tentative-deal-for-thousands-of-ontario-auto-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867837\/","title":{"rendered":"Unifor, General Motors reach tentative deal for thousands of Ontario auto workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s largest private-sector union says it has reached a tentative agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/general-motors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">General Motors<\/a> on a new deal for some 4,600 <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/auto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">auto <\/a>workers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/unifor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unifor<\/a> announced the agreement Saturday morning and said it would cover workers at auto plants in Oshawa, Ingersoll, St. Catharines and Woodstock.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur bargaining committee worked diligently to reach these agreements, which deliver strong income and benefit gains, amid some of the most challenging times in our history,\u201d national president Lana Payne said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations began on Aug. 10, according to the union, after deals between Unifor and Ford Motor Company were agreed upon and wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p>The tentative agreement with General Motors still needs to be ratified by union members, but Unifor\u2019s bargaining committee said it was unanimously endorsing the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s largest private-sector union says it has reached a tentative agreement with General Motors on a new deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9680,45,49,48,46,5577,714,95102],"class_list":["post-867837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-auto","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-general-motors","tag-politics","tag-unifor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}