Via Rail and Unifor reach last-minute tentative deal to avoid nationwide strike
A late-night statement from Via Rail says the deal, which still has to be ratified by the union, will be retroactive to January 1, 2022 and in effect through December 31, 2024.
Details of the new contract have not been released, but a statement from Unifor says they will be once it has been ratified by members. With the strike averted, Via Rail noted that the tentative agreements give travelling Canadians a break from the uncertainty of a possible shutdown. Unifor's lead negotiator, Scott Doherty, offered up his thanks to the union members and the travelling public, “for their patience and support, while we continued to negotiate past the strike deadline to achieve this agreement.”
As talks continued to progress, the union offered to push back several deadlines that would have initiated the job action and derailed the company's operations, coast to coast.
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