Contract talks between the Detroit Three automakers and Unifor, the union representing hourly staff on the firms, will formally start Aug. 10, the union says.

Unifor served “discover to cut price” to all Detroit Three bargaining models June 28, and formal opening negotiations will start in August on the Sheraton Centre in Toronto.

Pensions, wages, transition plans to electrical car manufacturing and new funding will high the listing of priorities. They have been borne of out of the union’s a brand new imaginative and prescient for the way forward for Canada’s auto sector known as “Navigating the Street Forward,” a coverage Unifor launched final yr.

“Each spherical of auto talks presents distinctive challenges and alternatives. On this spherical, we’ll work to construct on historic beneficial properties made in 2020 bargaining and proceed the momentum created over the previous three years,” Unifor stated in a press release.

Unifor’s present contracts with the Detroit Three expire Sept. 18 at 11:59 p.m. ET

Unifor has not but introduced which firm it’ll choose to set the contract sample for the remaining rounds of bargaining with the opposite firms. The union historically makes that announcement on or round Labour Day.

The union will preserve its membership up to date on-line at a website devoted to the talks.

The negotiations have an effect on about 20,000 hourly employees at Detroit Three meeting and components vegetation.