By Allison Lampert
MONTREAL (Reuters) – Productivity has slipped at a Montreal-area Airbus factory trying to ramp up assembly of the planemaker’s smallest commercial jet, as workers consider a new contract offer, according to sources and a union memo sent on Friday.
Airbus and union negotiators failed to reach a negotiated deal this week following intensive talks, but a second company offer will be considered by the estimated 1,300 workers on April 7, according to the memo seen by Reuters.
Details of the new offer, made after workers overwhelmingly rejected an earlier one this month, were not available.
Assembly workers at the plant, which makes A220 jets, were recently told by the company that overtime work was cut and productivity was down due to the talks and supply chain snags, three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters.
The European planemaker is trying to grow production of the money-losing A220 jets,…
