The union raised strike pay by $25 per week to $275, starting this week. On the pay issue, GM initially offered an $8,000 bonus to workers to sign the contract, but sweetened that to $9,000, the people said. Strike pay has cost the union roughly $48 million so far, according to the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think-tank . The strike immediately silenced about 30 GM factories in the U.S. and has brought down two plants in Mexico and one in Canada. It’s likely, though, that the workers would stay on strike until after all members vote on the contract.

Source: thestar October 14, 2019 23:03 UTC