Canada union accepts Fiat Chrysler contract; Ford next

Manufacturing workers of Canada at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles nominated on Sunday to support a faltering labor contract with the automaker. Their union declared this statement by stopping a strike and making clear the way for discussion with company.

The union’s Unifor assumed 70.1 percent voted to approve the four-year contract that covers 9,750 engineering employees. A refutation would have started a strike at Fiat Chrysler, terminating assembly plants in Brampton and Windsor, Ontario.

In a distributed brochure to members, the union declared Fiat Chrysler had committed to making a new vehicle at the plant in case the automaker keeps safe tolerable government support and market situations deserve the investment.

“In the action a positive company case is established, it is feasible a substitute product that could contain an existing policy or completely new architecture of vehicle, could take place throughout the Collective Agreement’s term,” said by the union.

The union beforehand said Fiat Chrysler decided to invest a huge amount C$325 million ($247.81 million) in Brampton to build again a paint shop.