CAW Update: Ford Offering $50,000 Buyouts, No New Jobs At Chrysler

Derek Kreindler
by Derek Kreindler

With negotiations between the CAW moving as quick as a French bureaucrat, Ford is offering eligible workers a new car and a $50,000 buyout as an early retirement gift, while Chrysler is offering the CAW nothing in the way of new jobs.

Speaking to the Canadian Press, a Ford spokeswoman said that

“We will be offering certain retirement-eligible employees an incentive to retire from the workforce to allow our employees on layoff opportunities to return to work,”

Reports say that the 1,000 eligible employees will be offered $50,000 and a voucher for a new vehicle. The incentives come as Ford tries to make room to re-hire workers that were laid off when the St. Thomas, Ontario plant closed one year ago.

Meanwhile, the CAW will apparently not ask Chrysler for any new jobs as part of their labor agreement, quashing rumors that they would push for a third-shift at the Brampton assembly plant that builds their rear-drive LX cars. Chrysler is also unhappy with the re-reinstatement of the cost of living adjustment in Q4 2016, the final quarter of the labor agreement.

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  • Danio3834 Danio3834 on Sep 25, 2012

    They may not need to ask. If demand for the LX cars keeps its current upward pace, production may be added all on its own.

  • 86SN2001 86SN2001 on Sep 25, 2012

    A lousy car and enough money to make it MAYBE one year? What an insult.

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    • SCE to AUX SCE to AUX on Sep 25, 2012

      I'm no union fan, but without it, they'd get the deal I received when I was laid off in 2003 (salaried engineer): 2 weeks' severance plus 2 weeks' unused vacation pay. I was sitting pretty for a whole month. In other jobs, you just get whacked. So I agree with mikey - it's not a bad deal.

  • Gentle Ted Gentle Ted on Sep 25, 2012

    I agree with "Mikey" as a recent retiree here in Canada but not in the Auto sector, it is a very good "Deal"

  • Gentle Ted Gentle Ted on Sep 25, 2012

    In Canada a RRSP is a registered Retirement Savings Plan, it allows you to save for retirement without Tax, there are other parts of it too like what I am on now called a RIF I have to take so much money out of my retirement each month once I turn 71, for more info do a search on goggle under RRSP Canada.

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