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Canadian auto workers say General Motors will be their next target after members ratified a new three-year labor contract with Ford DETROIT -- Canadian auto workers say General Motors will be their next target after members ratified a new three-year labor contract with Ford. Unifor, which represents about 4,300 workers at three GM facilities in Canada, said Monday it reached a strong deal with Ford and now will try to negotiate a pattern agreement with GM. President Lana Payne said the union has a lot of bargaining leverage with GM because a factory in Oshawa, Ontario, is working around the clock to build profitable Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks. “I don’t expect this to be an easy round of talks, and I want to make sure our union is best positioned to move this pattern forward for the benefit of all members, active and retired,” she said in a statement. Workers at Ford of Canada ratified a new deal on Sunday that raises base hourly pay for production workers by almost 20% over t...

The British government has offered millions of public sector workers pay raises in a bid to end an array of strikes, including a five-day walkout from doctors in Britain’s publicly funded health service LONDON -- The British government offered millions of public sector workers pay raises Thursday in a bid to end an array of strike s, including a five-day walkout from doctors in Britain’s public ly funded Health service. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak confirmed that the government was accepting the recommendations from pay review bodies, which will see a 7% rise for police, 6.5% for teachers and 6% for the striking junior doctors, who are at the early stages of their careers in the National Health Service. Sunak said the offers , which are not being funded by extra borrowing, are “final” and that there would be no more pay discussions. “We will not negotiate again on this year’s settlements and no amount of strikes will change our decision,” he said. The prime minister said the leade...

About 5,000 white-collar workers at General Motors took the company’s buyout offers, which the automaker says is enough to avoid layoffs at this time DETROIT -- About 5,000 white-collar workers at General Motors took the company's buyout offers, which the automaker says is enough to avoid layoffs at this time. GM said Tuesday that the offers will save about $1 billion per year in costs, about half of the $2 billion it wants to cut annually by the end of 2024. The company now has about 58,000 salaried workers in the U.S. The buyouts come at an uncertain time for the auto industry, which is in the midst of a transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles. GM has a goal of selling only electric passenger vehicles by 2035. The Detroit automaker and its competitors are making huge capital outlays to develop and build new electric vehicles, all while continuing to make cars, trucks and SUVs with gasoline engines. They're also spending big to get scarce minerals and parts ...