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Cassidy said Motipark workers would start at $17.77 per hour under the new agreement compared to the average of $22 per hour under the Unifor deal with AWC.
FCA and Unifor reached a temporary agreement last Sunday night ending the first blockade.
Unifor filed papers this week requesting a date before the Ontario Labour Relations Board on the successor rights issue.
Cassidy said Friday no date had been set yet.
The drama on Friday started around 1 a.m. when FCA management and Windsor Police Service officers showed up with the intention of having Motipark employees enter the plant.
However, the Unifor blockade prevented that.
Unifor said the 30 AWC workers reported for their shift at 7 a.m. only to be told they had to leave as they were trespassing.
“We told (FCA) they aren’t going to have scabs come in here,” Cassidy said.
“The police asked if we’d go in and escort them out, so we went in and escorted them out.”
Cassidy said the auto haulers for Cassen and ATS, which is a division of FCA, will be allowed to transport all minivans that had been processed and lined up for shipping by the AWC workers.
Friday’s production was being stored around WAP’s yard and the lots across from the plant on the east side. WAP has enough space to hold one day’s production (830 vehicles).
No production is scheduled for this weekend.
Cassidy said Unifor has suggested FCA make the AWC workers part of its ATS division, which is also represented by Local 444.
“ATS have a separate collective agreement (than WAP workers),” he said.
“We’ll negotiate a different contract (than AWC), no problem. It’s win-win for everyone.”
dwaddell@postmedia.com
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