Unionized workers at Integram Seating in Lakeshore have ratified a second tentative agreement.
The workers, represented by Unifor Local 444, voted 86-percent in favour of the new four year deal.
Photo of strike signs from employees at Integram Seating. (Photo courtesy of Unifor Local 444 Facebook.)
It includes a signing bonus, a 7.25-percent wage increase over the length of the agreement and co-pay has been eliminated for all new hires.
But union president Dino Chiodo says "the agreement does come with some job losses. Between 60 to 90 people will be out of work after the company stated it will be moving some of its GM foam product out of the plant."
"The wage increase did not change from the first tentative deal to the second tentative deal" says Chiodo. "We weren't able to move the wages. The reality is, is the company make it very clear to us if we improve the wages by any means currently because of their blended rate structure they would take the seating component of our work and they would move that and we weren't really to gamble with that piece of it."
The plant will stay make seats for the Windsor-built Chrysler Pacifica and Dodge Grand Caravan.
The deal comes after more than 700 of the 1,000 workers at the Lakeshore plant rejected another tentative agreement by a margin of 58-percent.