{"id":877744,"date":"2026-08-31T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877744\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:12:15","slug":"gms-canadian-workers-approve-deal-adding-truck-to-ontario-plant-amid-us-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877744\/","title":{"rendered":"GM&#8217;s Canadian workers approve deal adding truck to Ontario plant amid US trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; General Motors workers in Canada \u200con Sunday approved \u200can agreement that would build \u200ba new heavy-duty truck in Ontario, as part of C$1.1 billion ($790.97 \u200cmillion) pledged \u2060for its plants in a country \u2060now reeling from U.S. tariffs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The contract comes \u200bas Canada&#8217;s \u200bauto \u200bsector grapples \u200cwith 25% U.S. duties on vehicles, with U.S. President Donald Trump pledging to double them \u200cto 50% on \u200bJanuary 1, \u200b2027. \u200bThe fate of \u200cCanadian auto plants \u200bhas emerged \u200bas a central issue in the stalled \u200bU.S.-Canada \u200ctrade negotiations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting By \u200bAllison Lampert; Editing by \u200bChristian Schmollinger)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; General Motors workers in Canada \u200con Sunday approved \u200can agreement that would build \u200ba&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4443,304395,49,48,5577,44,32387,178],"class_list":["post-877744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-a","tag-aug-30","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-general-motors","tag-news","tag-reuters","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}