{"id":967806,"date":"2026-11-12T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/967806\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:06:13","slug":"stellantis-union-to-meet-with-canadas-industry-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/967806\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellantis, union to meet with Canada&#8217;s industry minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly is set to hold a four-way meeting today with automaker Stellantis, the union representing its more than 9,000 workers in Canada, and representatives of the Ontario government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The discussions in Toronto come days after Stellantis announced it was selling its Brampton, Ont. assembly plant to Canadian armoured vehicle manufacturer Roshel for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More than 2,000 workers have been laid off from the plant since it was idled in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/E3U5NAFEHEGWAZQPL4U4IULFEY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Stellantis Canada president and CEO Trevor Longley, left, and Unifor National President Lana Payne exchange a negotiation binder to mark the opening of bargaining between Unifor and Stellantis, in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRES&#8230; Stellantis Canada president and CEO Trevor Longley, left, and Unifor National President Lana Payne exchange a negotiation binder to mark the opening of bargaining between Unifor and Stellantis, in Toronto, on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Collective bargaining negotiations between Stellantis and Unifor broke down in September after the automaker signed a memorandum of understanding with Roshel to target a sale of the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unifor national president Lana Payne has called the sale a \u201cworst-case scenario,\u201d as she says Stellantis \u201cbetrayed our members with an underhanded deal to sell the plant and walk away from its commitments to these workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joly\u2019s office denied reports late Wednesday that she was involved in negotiations that led to the deal, saying the minister never met with Roshel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly is set to hold a four-way meeting today with automaker Stellantis, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[23201,45,49,48,3717,1688,47,714,3302],"class_list":["post-967806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-automotive","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-labour","tag-manufacturing","tag-national","tag-politics","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967806","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=967806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}