G.M. and Union in Canada Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike<br />The dispute flared up amid rising tensions between Canada<br />and the Trump administration over the future of the North American Trade Agreement and increasing Canadian worries about losing factory jobs to lower-wage plants in Mexico.<br />Workers at G. M.’s plant in Ingersoll went on strike last month to protest the shift of some production to Mexico<br />that led to the loss of about 600 Canadian production jobs.<br />General Motors and Canada’s largest trade union have reached a tentative agreement in a labor dispute<br />that has idled an Ontario plant that makes a popular sport utility vehicle, the Chevrolet Equinox.<br />Canada has lost thousands of auto industry jobs over the last decade as automakers have<br />rushed to build a string of new plants in Mexico and in the southern United States.
