Canada. Union takes over aerospace plant in Milton, Ont., to protest pension shortfalls
The union representing workers at an aerospace plant in Milton, Ont., says its members have occupied the facility and stopped production in protest of pension cuts.
Scott McIlmoyle, president of Unifor Local 112, says they entered the Northstar Aerospace west of Toronto at about 4 a.m. Thursday.
He says the shutdown is in response to Northstar refusing to fund a 24 per cent shortfall in workers’ pensions at the plant.
The union says the company has announced the relocation of the Milton facility’s equipment to Chicago and Windsor, Ont., but will not meet the pension shortfall for workers facing job loss.
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