“Selling that plant in the middle of a trade war, and in the middle of collective bargaining, is indefensible,” Payne said.<\/p>\n
The plant has sat idle since 2023, after Stellantis paused a planned Jeep Compass retooling and later moved that work to the U.S. Greg Layson, online editor at Automotive News Canada, ties the Brampton commitments to a $15-billion performance incentive from the federal and Ontario governments.<\/p>\n
Payne said Unifor prefers a settlement without strike action, though it “remains a real possibility” as the Sept. 20 deadline nears. Joly says her office is applying “maximum pressure” on Stellantis.<\/p>\n
Bargaining stalls as sale talks surface<\/p>\n
The impasse traces back to Sept. 11, 2026, when Stellantis signed its MOU with Roshel, a Canadian armoured vehicle maker, over a possible sale of the idled Brampton plant. Unifor spokesperson Kathleen O’Keefe said the proposal “has hindered the bargaining process,” warning a closure and sale “threaten the wages, pensions and other benefits of Unifor members,” according to a previous CBC report.<\/p>\n
Trevor Longley, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Stellantis Canada in Windsor, Ont., framed the arrangement differently, saying Roshel “represents a strong path to restoring sustainable operations at Brampton Assembly, preserving the site’s strategic role in Canada’s advanced manufacturing sector,” acording to the same report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Selling that plant in the middle of a trade war, and in the middle of collective bargaining, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48,298880,34215,95102],"class_list":["post-902631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lana-payne","tag-stellantis","tag-unifor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902631","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=902631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}