(This column originally appeared at the Huffington Post blog on September 27th, 2016)
Last week, with a midnight deadline looming, General Motors Canada struck a deal with their workers’ union, Unifor, to avert a strike and allow GM’s Canadian operations to continue uninterrupted.
As with most labour negotiations, this couldn’t have happened without both sides putting a little water in their wine. And crucial to this deal was Unifor’s willingness to agree that new employees would be put onto a defined-contribution pension plan. With any luck this move will rub off on their union brothers and sisters working in government.
