The automaker has changed the shift’s end date four times since it first announced its planned demise during the summer. After March 2020, FCA "will review the business case for maintaining the third shift on a month to month basis going forward," says Unifor, the union representing workers there.

Subaru and Honda saw their sales increase while Toyota and Nissan took hits. Overall, trucks accounted for more than 76 percent of all new vehicles sold in October.

The Canadian supplier will build dual-clutch and hybrid transmissions for BMW Group under a multi-year contract.

Polestar's new store in Montreal is set to open in 2020 in a province that saw its EV sales increase 93 percent in the second quarter this year. The Volvo brand also named Hugues Bissonnette as its Canadian manager.

Unifor insists Nemak must keep its Windsor plant open until the current labor contract expires in 2022. Nemak wants to shutter the engine-block factory in mid-2020 because, by then, only 10 percent of the plant’s capacity will be in use.

The Canadian supplier also warned its investors in an update on market conditions that global light-vehicle production in the third quarter through year-end is expected to be down from the company’s previous June forecast.

The Japanese and Detroit 3 automakers suffered sales declines last month, but some higher-end brands, including Lexus, Volvo and Acura, saw sales spike. 

About 700 workers of the 1,100 at the St. Catharines Propulsion Plant, which supplies V6 and V8 engines to assembly plants in the United States, have been told to stay home this week. Unifor says 5,000 workers, including those at supply plants, in Canada have been put on leave due to the strike.

Workers at the Oshawa factory complete final assembly of previous-model Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks.

Members of Unifor Local 200 returned to work at Nemak for the 11 p.m. shift Sunday, ending the two-week-long strike. The plant supplies engine blocks to General Motors.

Unifor says the wildcat strike at Nemak, a subsidiary of Mexico-based Alfa, will continue until further notice. The decision flies in the face of Ontario Superior Court Justice Terrance Patterson, who on Friday fined the union C$75,000 ($56,000 USD).

Unifor officials at both the national and local level declined to say what they intend to do next, beyond reviewing the ruling at a meeting Saturday.  Union members walked off the job at Nemak in Windsor, Canada, on Labor Day, protesting the company's decision to close the plant.

Unifor President Jerry Dias accuses Nemak of not adhering to a collective agreement at the company's Canada plant, which supplies GM engine blocks. Union members stopped working on Labor Day because Nemak plans to close the factory in mid-2020.

The strike at the Canada plant that supplies engine blocks for the Chevrolet Silverado diesel pickup is now more than a week old. Unifor is trying to stage a 3,000-person rally Tuesday on a vacant lot adjacent to the plant, a union spokesman said.

Unifor members erected barricades and turned management away at the gate, effectively stopping production of engine blocks destined for GM vehicles. The protest is in response to Nemak's decision to close the plant in Windsor, Ont., in mid-2020.