440 workers at Cascade Aerospace’s Abbotsford, B.C., plant are set to strike.
Barring a last-minute tentative agreement the aircraft maintenance engineers, interior technicians, painters, maintenance, planning clerks and sheet metal mechanics will bring production to a halt at 11 a.m. on June 4.
Unifor Local 114’s current agreement with Cascade Aerospace expired on March 30, 2014, and workers voted 98 per cent in favour of strike action on May 13, 2014.
This latest round of bargaining marked the first under the company’s new ownership, Halifax-based IMP Group.
The union has also voiced concerns the company is making plans to bring in replacement workers in the event of a strike.