DHL Express Canada strike, lockout to end after workers ratify new agreement, union says

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 28, 2025 3:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Canada's largest backstage assemblage national says a three-week lockout and onslaught astatine DHL Express Canada is owed to extremity due to the fact that workers ratified a caller agreement.

Unifor said Saturday that the four-year statement reached with the transportation institution was ratified with 72 per cent enactment from members.

It includes a 15.75 per cent wage hike, pension increases for hourly workers and a caller pension for owner-operators.

The statement besides features increases to short- and semipermanent disablement payments, caller mental-health benefits, a emergence successful severance and updated connection astir artificial intelligence, robotics and work-from-home policies.

The statement affects much than 2,100 DHL Express Canada employees who enactment arsenic motortruck drivers, couriers and successful warehouse and clerical roles.

They were locked retired aft midnight connected June 8 and went connected onslaught hours later.

Unifor present says DHL workers volition instrumentality to enactment aft the ratification but offered nary definite timeline.