Stellantis workers across Canada have delivered their union a strong strike mandate as talks have stalled between its bargaining committee and the company.
Unifor said Monday that 97.3 per cent of members who participated in a vote over the weekend are in favour of authorizing a strike if needed.
“Unifor members at Stellantis understand how difficult negotiations with the company have been and gave an overwhelming mandate to support their bargaining committee,” said Lana Payne, president of Unifor National, in a statement.
“Our members are united in their determination to reach a fair agreement with Stellantis that protects jobs for Canadian autoworkers,” she said.
Unifor, which represents more than 9,000 Stellantis workers, said over the weekend that a potential strike action remains a last resort and it hopes to still reach a deal.
But bargaining is at an impasse with the automaker after the company announced it planned to sell its Brampton assembly plan to Roshel, a defence contractor.
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More than 2,000 workers were laid off from the plant when it stopped operations in 2023. Stellantis has argued that keeping the plant no longer made sense for its business, but that selling could support future workers.
While striking is a last resort, Unifor said “we will not back down and accept a deal that weakens Stellantis’ footprint within Canada’s auto industry due to broken commitments.”
Smart move going on strike against a company that is struggling already to sell their products because Carney can’t or won’t get a deal with Trump. Just another reason to close completely and move down to the USA then ship products back to Canada. Companies are in business to make money not to hire people to do nothing and get paid.
The union is so smart, buy the Brampton plant and start making cars.We know this will never happen, but sorry, company is not in business to loose money in the long term.
If there ever was a reason for a company to shut down its Canadian operations and move all to the USA… well here it is! Unless Carney gets that trade dispute resolved with Trump by his promised July 21, 2025…oh wait…
Anon
Yes
There is car company that can’t survive without government help and subsidies and union that only survives with government help . No capitalism here and not so much a free market!
@Ben. Is your middle name Karl Marx?
Two brain dead organizations are fighting who’s going to be dying first
I guess the the LIEberals & Melanie Joly didn’t get the memo … what is she gonna do drink wine and not read what was written on the strike mandate
Her go to answer is we will sue stellantis with no outcome!!
@ anonymous 1:17.pm. Canada doesn’t make any garbage to buy
Canada lives because of America
Stellantis needs to just f*** right off out of Canada, same goes for GM Instead of giving them billions every year to stay, gov needs to tell them to leave and also close every single one of their dealerships while they’re at it. That would soon change their tone, the lot of them. I miss when Canada fought for itself
Not to worry, millions of chinaflu EVs will soon be here, know everything you say and do, watching watching waiting to strike, hacked EVs will crash into oncoming traffic regularly
Stellantis is taking advantage of Canada and it’s high time someone stood up to these car companies. Conservatives just want unions to cave so that labour’s share of GDP grows even smaller.
Are they for real????
Auto union, DERP, Canada post Union, DERP
Your telling me that your going to punish the company closing down your plant to eliminate the cost of your employment by, walking off the job unpaid by the employees.
Be like catching someone in the act of a murder, after the turn the gun on you and you smuggly say ” Hey, I saw your face and I will testify against you if you let me live”
This was another complain Carney recieved a lot of complaints about at the Canada’s for sell convention. Apparently no one wants to build in a country where unions strike at every opportunity and protestors teippl your cost 5x the time to build and in the end the government asks you to give 30-50% ownership to the indigenous protestors that dragged the project as close as possible to defaulting.
The mafia was in business to steal Canadian cars and ship them overseas. Maybe they should just focus on selling to those locations instead of letting them steal.
Not to worry, cunada will soon have millions of chinaflu EVs, watching your every move, listening to you, probably hacked to crash into oncoming traffic
Way to go! Vote yourself out of a job ! Bravo ..Vote Lib!
Trump has literally destroyed the sales of the US vehicles to Canada it’s at an historical low hopefully Canadians will keep it that way the US can keep all their garbage
As if the strike will keep you employed! It will just hasten the sale of Stellantis, and then your temporary layoff with become permanent. That what you want?
Why not just pivot like every other savvy business does and switch to making the armored vehicles? Seems like it’s that or a complete closure of the plant. Only an idiot will push for a strike now.
They produce garbage anyway so it will be no big loss
Yeah, this seems like a good decision. What are the odds Stellantis doesn’t immediately close the plant? They’re probably looking for an excuse to move south, unfortunately. The union gave them one.
Welcum to cunada, land of opportunity! Bring your hundred relatives! Land of milk and honey!
Sure, unions don’t understand or believe in business reality. Demand more and make it easier for them to move to the US. Keep Trump happy.