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CAW, Chrysler reach new labour contract
TORONTO -- The Canadian Auto Workers union reached a tentative agreement with Chrysler on Wednesday, signalling a successful end to labour negotiations at all Big Three automakers without resorting to a strike.
The deal meets the pattern set in deals already reached with Ford and General Motors, CAW president Ken Lewenza said.
Chrysler will be better positioned in the industry as a result, he added.
The union's tone with Chrysler had changed dramatically from a week ago when Lewenza had urged the automaker to "get serious" and table a proposal that followed the pattern set with agreements at Ford and General Motors.
The CAW reached a tentative agreement with Ford on Sept. 17, which workers accepted by a margin of 82 per cent. The union also reached an agreement with General Motors on Sept. 20. It's in the process of being voted on.
Industry observers have said those deals gave Chrysler little choice but to accept the framework agreement -- Chrysler's Canadian operations account for 25 per cent of its global production, the largest of the U.S. automakers.
The automaker had been concerned about being bound to the framework agreement established by Ford and GM that pays lump-sum payments over four years in lieu of cost-of-living and wage increases.
Under the pattern deal first reached with Ford, each worker will get $2,000 a year in the second, third and fourth years of the contract to cover cost-of-living increases, plus a $3,000 ratification bonus.
New hires at Ford, GM and Chrysler will begin their careers at $20 an hour, down from $24, and take 10 years to reach peak pay levels of $34 an hour instead of six years.
-- The Canadian Press
New employees will also receive hybrid pension plans instead of pure defined benefit plans for current employees.
In the U.S., new workers start at US$15.50 per hour and rise to US$19.28 per hour compared with the US$28 per hour top rate paid to existing employees.
In the United States, Chrysler workers received lower lump sum payments than Ford and GM workers.
Chrysler doesn't want to follow the others because it presents itself as a smaller, different company.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 27, 2012 B8
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