The strike is officially over in Ingersoll.
At 1:45pm Monday it was announced that workers at General Motors' CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont., have accepted a tentative agreement, ending a four-week-long strike.
The contract proposal was hammered out last week and Unifor, which represents 2,500 of the 2,800 workers affected, had recommended the deal be accepted.
The union says almost 86 per cent of production workers and 79 per cent of tradesworkers approved the contract.
About 2,400 workers voted.
Mike Van Boekel, CAMI unit chairman for Local 88, says employees will receive four per cent wage increases over the four-year deal, a $6,000 signing bonus and annual payments of $2,000 each Christmas.
While GM didn't agree to specific investments at the plant, CAMI will remain the main production centre for the Equinox with three shifts.
Van Boekel says the automaker will be forced to pay $300 million for any future job cuts. About 400 workers are currently on layoff.
The automaker threatened last week to shift more production to Mexico if a settlement wasn't reached swiftly and the two sides agreed to a deal on Friday.
Striking workers will start returning to the job at 11 p.m. Monday.
Meantime, hundreds of laid off workers in Niagara were back on the job this morning.
435 workers in the region were laid off three weeks ago following the CAMI strike.
On September 25th, 255 workers at St.Catharines GM Glendale plant were laid off, along with 180 at the Spencer ARL plant in Niagara Falls.
The Glendale Ave. plant builds transmissions that supply the CAMI Assembly plant.
Unifor Local 199 President Greg Brady tells CKTB's Tim Denis that all workers were called back to work effective this morning.