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Unifor Says Stellantis Will Match the Ford and GM Deals Only if the Union Accepts the Sale of Brampton

Unifor will ask more than 9,000 Stellantis workers in Canada to authorise a strike on 17 and 18 October. The union says the company has made the wage and benefit pattern already agreed at Ford and General Motors conditional on the union accepting the closure and sale of the idled Brampton assembly plant to Roshel, an armoured vehicle maker.

By Thomas Gutierrez · 6 minutes ago

The Numbers

The Best Organising Year in Decades Still Loses Ground

Workers won NLRB elections at the highest rate in decades last year — 93,517 of them, up 19 percent. Union density is 10.0 percent, and 14.7 million members in a workforce of about 147 million. Both numbers are real. One is a flow and the other is a stock, and the arithmetic between them is unforgiving.

By Margaret Holloway · September 7, 2026