Stellantis delays adding third shift at Windsor Assembly, production to fluctuate Stellantis will not soon be adding a third shift to its Windsor Assembly Plant and production may fluctuate over the next 12 weeks. Unifor Local 444 told its members in a memo “the expected addition of a third shift at the Windsor Assembly Plant in the second half of 2025 will be postponed until 2026”, though did not say why. Stellantis Canada confirmed the deci...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/10

The assembly plant had been running two shifts while producing BrightDrop vans, but when production resumes in October, the plant will operate on a single shift “for the foreseeable future”, impacting 450 workers. “This is a crushing blow to hundreds of working families in Ingersoll,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne said in the statement. “General Motors must do everything in its power to mitigate job loss during this downtur...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/12

Unifor in talks with Canada Post to buy electric BrightDrop vans Canada’s Unifor labor union is in talks with Canada Post to promote the idea of the country's primary mail service purchasing Chevrolet BrightDrop vans. Unifor National President Lana Payne said that the union has spoken with provincial and federal agencies to suggest purchasing vans produced at GM’s CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. Canada Post is in the middle of tran...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/12

offs at several of the company's U.S. powertrain and stamping facilities. The Windsor Assembly Plant, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager minivans for U.S. and Canadian markets, as well as Dodge's new electric Charger Daytona, will be down for two weeks starting April 7, according to the Unifor union president there. Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Ontario, has already been shut down for retooling. In Mexico, the Toluca Assembly Plant...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/04

engines used in the popular Super Duty pickup would cost Ford about USD 70,000 in tariffs, while a truck stocked with 66 of the 5.0-liter engines used in Ford's other F-Series trucks would cost the automaker USD 75,000 to USD 80,000 to bring into the U.S., according to John D’Agnolo, president of Unifor Local 200. "Now, just as soon as we get the engines done, we bring them over," D’Agnolo said, noting that at the Essex Engine plant, workers ...

News  Updated at: 2025/03/21

ects roughly 1,000 workers who had anticipated transitioning to EV motor production. Nearly half the hourly workers at the plant were laid off in the first half of 2024, as two programs reached their end-of-life when V6 engines and GF6 six-speed transmissions production ended this spring. About 600 Unifor union members are working at the plant currently, down from 1,100 at the start of 2024. A further 500 union members in the plant’s supply cha...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/26

GM's CAMI Assembly workers ratify new contract, aligning now with other GM plants On September 22, workers at GM’s CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario overwhelmingly approved a new two-year contract between the company and the Unifor union that provides pay increases and eliminates what the union called "a historic pay lag" with other Canadian GM employees. “For the first time Unifor has successfully negotiated a two-year contract term ...

News  Updated at: 2024/09/25

GM, Unifor reach tentative agreement for CAMI Assembly plant On September 18, General Motors and Unifor, the union representing workers in Canada, reached a deal on a new agreement for the CAMI Assembly and battery assembly facilities, which is subject to member ratification. Details of the agreement will first be released to union members of Local 88 at a September 22 ratification meeting.  Unifor Local 88 leaders, representing workers at the E...

News  Updated at: 2024/09/19

GM, Unifor enter talks over new contract for CAMI workers building electric vans On September 9, General Motors and Canadian union Unifor kicked off negotiations for a new agreement for workers who produce Chevrolet BrightDrop electric vans at the CAMI Assembly facility in Ingersoll, Ontario, where 1,300 workers build electric delivery vans, as well as the battery modules for the BrightDrop vans and EVs built at other GM plants. Unifor Local 88 l...

News  Updated at: 2024/09/12

GM CAMI plant union workers approve strike mandate ahead of negotiations Unionized workers at the GM CAMI Assembly plant in Canada have overwhelmingly approved a strike mandate by 97%, which comes as Unifor and General Motors prepare for contract negotiations to begin on September 9. The routine strike-authorization vote allows approximately 1,200 members of Unifor Local 88 to hold a strike once the current three-year contract expires on Septembe...

News  Updated at: 2024/08/31

mplex. When complete, Oakville Assembly Complex will be a fully flexible plant. Boosting Super Duty assembly will initially secure approximately 1,800 Canadian jobs at Oakville Assembly Complex, 400 more than would initially have been needed to produce the three-row electric vehicle coming in 2027. Unifor-represented employees at Oakville Assembly Complex will return to work in 2026, a full year earlier than previously planned. The increased prod...

News  Updated at: 2024/07/19

gnificant new investments" to support electric drive unit production pending government funding, with drive unit facility retooling planned to start in Q1 2024 and production starting in Q3 2025 to build up to 400,000 EV motors per year. However, the OEM may now take a step back from this timeline. Unifor Local 199 President Jordan Lennox stated GM has yet to officially inform the Canadian union when EV motor production would begin and claimed th...

News  Updated at: 2024/06/07

nsite, which employs another 200 full-time employees. “We are starting to get on the other side of supply chain issues and we have not yet hit the scale of EV manufacturing, that will take a few more years [before there’s more stability in the EV market]”, said Mike Van Boekel, chairperson of Unifor Local 88. The Zevo 600 offers up to 614.7 cubic feet of cargo room, while the Zevo 400 offers up to 412 cubic feet of cargo room.  (multiple s...

News  Updated at: 2024/04/06

Ford asked to clarify Oakville plans after reports EVs to be delayed On March 20, the Unifor union representing 3,000 hourly workers at Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, said it is seeking answers from the company following reports that Ford is delaying EV production at the facility. Three-row EVs, to be built at the renamed Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex, were expected to go on sale in early 2025, but instead Ford is shi...

News  Updated at: 2024/03/23

GM to restart BrightDrop EV van production at CAMI plant April 1 General Motors will restart BrightDrop EV van production at its CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, with one shift on April 1, according to the Unifor union, after a production halt in October 2023 due to a shortage of Ultium battery modules. The union’s A and B shifts, each with about 350 workers, will rotate in a two weeks on, two weeks off pattern. Battery module product...

News  Updated at: 2024/02/22

Ford Edge production at Oakville plant to end on April 26 The Unifor-represented workforce at the Oakville Assembly Complex in Canada was notified on January 20 that current Ford Edge production is scheduled to end April 26, ending its 18-year production run and clearing the way for future BEV production. Ford Motor Co. of Canada did not immediately make any retooling announcements, but in Aril 2023, said the CAD 1.8 billion project would start i...

News  Updated at: 2024/01/30

GM details cost of UAW, Unifor contracts, reiterates EV push while considering new hybrids On November 29, GM CEO Mary Barra spoke on a call with financial analysts to assured them that the company remains fully focused on being all-electric company as it works forward after record labor contracts with the UAW and Unifor labor unions. Overall, the contracts with the two unions will cost the company USD 9.3 billion over the life of the deals and a...

News  Updated at: 2023/12/01

Unifor ratifies agreement with Stellantis, new investments in Canadian plants revealed Unifor members at Stellantis ratified the new three-year collective agreement negotiated between the two parties. Under the new agreement, base hourly wages for workers at top rate will increase by 20%, while wages for skilled trades workers will increase by 25%. The agreement also includes product allocation information detailing investments at Stellantis’ p...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/08

Stellantis reports Q3 results with net revenues up 7.1% On October 31, Stellantis reported Q3 2023 results with net revenues of EUR 45.1 billion, up 7.1% compared to Q3 2022, on improved volume and consistent pricing, partially offset by foreign exchange impacts. The tentative agreement reached with both UAW and Unifor came after work stoppages negatively impacted net revenues by approximately EUR 3 billion, compared to planned production, throug...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/02

Stellantis, Unifor announce tentative agreement, ending short strike in Canada On October 30 at 7:40 a.m., Canada’s Unifor labor union announced it has reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis, ending a short-lived strike. Only hours earlier, the union had announced a strike for its 8,200 members working for Stellantis, shortly after a deadline passed at 11:59 p.m.  The Stellantis-Unifor deal followed the patterns set between Unifor and G...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/31