Stellantis Signs MoU with Roshel for Potential Sale of Brampton Factory in Canada
\nStellantis and Roshel: Brampton Factory Sale and Labor Negotiations<\/p>\n
By Kalea Hall<\/p>\n
Memorandum of Understanding and Factory Plans<\/p>\n
Sept 11 (Reuters) – Jeep maker Stellantis has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian armored vehicle maker\u00a0Roshel outlining a potential sale of an idled Stellantis car factory near Toronto, the automaker said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Stellantis said that, after considering several potential opportunities for the facility, the company “believes that Roshel represents a strong path to restoring sustainable operations at Brampton Assembly.”<\/p>\n
Roshel’s Vision for Brampton Facility<\/p>\n
Roshel CEO Roman Shimonov said in a statement on Friday that the company plans to establish a center for defense manufacturing in Brampton, Ontario, where the plant is located.<\/p>\n
Bloomberg News first reported the memorandum of understanding.<\/p>\n
Labor Negotiations and Union Response<\/p>\n
Stellantis is in contract negotiations with Unifor, a Canadian union representing autoworkers at Stellantis, General Motors and Ford, to replace a deal that expires on September 20.<\/p>\n
Commitments to Laid-off Workers<\/p>\n
“We are ready to provide letters of commitment for first consideration to laid-off Unifor workers and bring them back to work as early as 2026,” Shimonov said.<\/p>\n
Unifor’s Position and Ongoing Talks<\/p>\n
Unifor has said it was at an impasse with Stellantis “following 10 days of intensive talks.” The union said it has paused negotiations and is considering next steps.<\/p>\n
Other Canadian Stellantis Plants<\/p>\n
The company has not disclosed plans for its other Canadian plants: the Windsor Assembly Plant and\u00a0Etobicoke Casting Plant, the union said.<\/p>\n
Economic Settlement and Brampton Closure<\/p>\n
“Stellantis has offered only conditional agreement with the economic pattern settlement tied to the closing of Brampton, creating added complications for reaching a deal,” the union said in a statement, referring to a wage settlement.<\/p>\n
Background on Brampton Plant<\/p>\n
Last month, union leaders said Stellantis notified them it was considering closing and selling the Brampton plant.<\/p>\n
Stellantis closed Brampton in 2023 for retooling. Stellantis paused that work in 2025 before moving future production of its Jeep Compass to a factory in Illinois, \u200bafter U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Kalea Hall in Detroit, Ruchika Khanna in Bengaluru and Divya Rajagopal in Toronto; Editing by Tasim Zahid, Mike Colias, Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stellantis Signs MoU with Roshel for Potential Sale of Brampton Factory in Canada Stellantis and Roshel: Brampton Factory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-892914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892914","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=892914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}