{"id":893015,"date":"2026-09-12T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T12:58:09","slug":"unifor-pushes-back-on-brampton-plant-sale-seeks-answers-on-windsor-am-800-cklw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/893015\/","title":{"rendered":"Unifor pushes back on Brampton plant sale, seeks answers on Windsor \u2013 AM 800 CKLW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unifor is not happy about the potential sale of a Toronto-area auto assembly plant, but that\u2019s not its only bone to pick with Stellantis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The automaker says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian armoured vehicle maker Roshel on a potential sale of its idled plant in Brampton, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unifor says in an emailed statement that the Brampton facility\u2019s proposed sale threatens the wages, pensions and other benefits of Unifor members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The union says there\u2019s no economic substitute for automotive assembly in Canada, including the high-quality, union jobs connected to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But elsewhere in Ontario, Unifor says the company has still yet to confirm forecasted plans for its Windsor assembly plant and Etobicoke casting plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unifor says it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.am800cklw.com\/news\/contract-talks-stall-between-unifor-and-stellantis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.am800cklw.com\/news\/contract-talks-stall-between-unifor-and-stellantis\/\">paused its contract talks with Stellantis<\/a> and is adamant there will be no tentative settlement without what it feels is a suitable resolution for its members in Brampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unifor is not happy about the potential sale of a Toronto-area auto assembly plant, but that\u2019s not its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-893015","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\/893015","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=893015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}