New four-year contract for Griffin Wheel workers
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Griffin Wheel workers have ended a 19-day lockout with ratification of a new four-year contract.
Unifor Local 144 said it negotiated a four per cent wage increase in years 1 and 2, and three per cent in years 3 and 4.
The new collective agreement was ratified by 87 per cent of membership.
Union officials said the new contract contains the largest wage and pension gains in the history of the Winnipeg train car wheel plant owned by Chicago-based Amsted Rail.
Among other things, the new contract preserved workers’ defined benefit pension plan and increased employer pension plan contributions in each year of the agreement. Sunset clause language was removed from the pension plan.
“This plant has had forced overtime since the 1970s and because of our solidarity, the members are now able to have 13 long weekends off in a year,” Unifor Local 144 president Liz Sousa said Tuesday.
