Some 1,800 Quebec union members of Bombardier will again be called upon to vote on a final and global offer from their employer next week. Another refusal could pave the way for an indefinite general strike.
Posted yesterday at 4:32 p.m.
A new proposal was submitted to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW, Friday, at the end of a day when the president and CEO of the aircraft manufacturer Éric Martel met with the committee of union negotiation.
The content of the offer will be presented next Monday to the workers who assemble the Challenger business jets in Dorval and their colleagues at the Montreal plant in the borough of Saint-Laurent – where parts such as the cabin of piloting of the Global 7500. The vote should take place next Wednesday.
IAMAW members held a one-day strike on Monday following the rejection of the previous offer. Talks with the employer resumed the following day.
If the most recent offer is rejected, the walkout could be longer. The union members already have an unlimited general strike mandate, which they could choose to exercise. The collective agreement of the 1,800 employees represented by the IAMAW expired last December.