Unifor, GM reach tentative agreement
Posted Aug 22, 2026 10:43:56 AM.
Last Updated Aug 22, 2026 11:55:53 AM.
Unifor has reached a tentative agreement with General Motors after just over a week of talks with the auto manufacturer.
Terms of the deal were not immediately available but union president Lana Payne said the agreement touted strong income and benefit gains in a statement released Saturday morning.
The deal cover more than 4,600 unionized employees at the Oshawa Assembly Plant, CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, St. Catharines Propulsion Plant and Woodstock Parts Distribution Centre.
Jack Uppal, president and managing director at GM Canada, says the deal builds on GM’s investments in Canadian manufacturing but further details of the agreements will be shared later to respect the ratification process.
A ratification vote is expected to take place Aug. 29 and 30.
Talks between Unifor and GM Canada began earlier this month after the union reached an agreement with Ford that included three per cent annual pay increases and a renewal of a no-closure agreement.
Unifor’s top bargainer with GM says the tentative deals are in line with the pattern set by the Ford agreement.
In pattern bargaining, a union negotiates with one company to set terms that it hopes to replicate with other companies in the same sector.
The union is set to move onto labour talks with Stellantis next amid headwinds for the auto sector, including U.S. tariffs, the Trump administration’s decision not to extend the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, and the introduction of Chinese electric vehicles into Canada.
Files from The Canadian Press were used in this report
