Greg Layson

Canada's supplier trade association is raising concerns over the possibility that Mexico will provide an easy work-around for Chinese companies seeking to export into Canada and the United States.

Campaigns and negotiating committees need to find the balance to keep all their constituents happy. Or at least enough to ratify a contract.

Unifor Local 444 President Dave Cassidy, who represents about 4,800 hourly workers at a Stellantis assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., said he will press the automaker to include its EV battery plant in the next collective agreement between the two parties.

General Motors says it will idle its CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., due to delays in the supply of battery modules.

Unifor says 18,000 people at GM, Ford and Stellantis in Canada are covered by collective agreements. 

A shortage of automotive technicians at Ontario new-vehicle dealers has reached a 'crisis' level, a new report warns.

Construction of a $5-billion electric-vehicle battery plant jointly owned by Stellantis and LG Energy Solution has resumed, the automaker said July 5.

General Motors will spend $209 million to retool its Oshawa Assembly Plant northeast of Toronto so it can build the next generation of internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size trucks.

Stellantis and LG Energy ceased some construction of its planned EV battery factory in Windsor, Ontario, as it continues to spar with the federal government over financial assistance.

Québec-based Uni-Select, Canada’s largest supplier of automotive refinish, industrial paint and more than two million replacement parts in the auto industry, is being purchased by U.S.-based LKQ Corporation for about $2.1 billion in cash.

Stellantis said in October 2021 that it would eliminate the second shift in early spring of 2022, but it has since extended the life of the shift three times.

Stellantis owns 49 percent of the joint venture while South Korea-based LG Energy Solution owns the remaining 51 percent. 

The automaker plans to retool its plants in Windsor and Brampton and build two new R&D centers in Canada focusing on EVs and battery technology.

Stellantis will retool its plants in Windsor and Brampton, converting them to what the company described in a statement as “flexible, multi-energy vehicle assembly facilities ready to produce the electric vehicles of the future.”

Unifor says it has turned over to the Toronto Police Service the money the union says was given by a third party to its former president Jerry Dias and led to an investigation into his conduct.