Canadian Airbus A220 workers reject ‘tentative’ agreement

Members of Airbus Canada Internationale Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Local Lodge 712 have rejected a ‘proposed tentative agreement’, the third offer to be rejected in a series of negotiations between the union and Airbus since November 2023. The new agreement proposed a five-year contract (scheduled to run up until December 1 2028) included salary increases, retroactive to December 2 2023, alongside a variety of financial and other benefits. “We thought we’d met our members’ expectations with this tentative agreement, but that’s not the case,” explained Éric Rancourt, union spokesperson at the bargaining table and IAMAW Canada representative for