The Canadian auto supply giant said the stronger U.S. dollar, the sale of its fluid pressure and controls business and lower expected light vehicle production in Europe will impact revenue this year.

The British Columbia-based automaker in November 2019 opened a kiosk in the Westfield Century City Shopping Mall on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Now, it's looking at locations in the states of Washington and Oregon. It is scheduled to be released in 2020 and expected to retail for less than $20,000.

The Canadian supplier is developing new camera technology in the interest of fuel economy, but it’s expensive, the images aren’t as clear as with glass and governments are not yet on board.

The shutdown comes as sales of the Chrysler Pacifica and the Dodge Grand Caravan continue to fall in Canada and the United States.

Canadian new-vehicle sales ended 2019 down 3.6 percent but automakers still managed to sell more than 1.9 million units for the fourth consecutive year. “You can make a lot of money in a 1.9-million market,” said one analyst.

Honda and Nissan suffered losses while Toyota, Hyundai and Kia each posted gains.

In its grievance, Unifor insisted Nemak must keep the plant open until the current labor agreement expires in 2022. Nemak wants to shutter the plant in mid-2020.

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.