Workers at International Forest Products Ltd (Interfor) have reached an agreement to end their 15-week strike.
Just over half of the workers agreed a deal to return to work according to trade union United Steelworkers (USW), with operations due to restart this week.
Interfor said that the deal is similar to that struck between loggers and Forest Industrial Relations in late October. Interfor’s agreement will provide workers with 2%, 3% and 2% pay increases over the three-year term and offer “enhanced language related to providing severance pay to workers in the event of the permanent closure of a significant portion of the production facilities at any of the three sawmills”.
On the same day that the deal was announced, Interfor said that it was ceasing operations at its Queensboro sawmill, furthering curtailments that had been put in place at the site prior to the strike.
