Rank-and-file candidate for UAW president calls for cross-border action to defend Canadian workers against Stellantis job cuts

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    "excerpt": "Stellantis is moving to permanently close its Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario, eliminating 2,200 jobs or close to a quarter of its Canadian workforce. Last month, the automaker reneged on its repeated pledges that the Brampton plant would reopen for production of the next-generation Jeep Compass. On September 11, it announced a memorandum of understanding to sell the plant to Roshel, a Canadian-based arms manufacturer whose armored vehicles have been supplied to the Ukrainian armed forces and to the US ICE anti-immigrant force. Last week, Stellantis Canada President Trevor Longley sent a letter to Brampton workers confirming the company’s intention to permanently close the plant, declaring that due to “unpredictable trade policies, challenging regulatory requirements and affordability pressures,” Stellantis does not see “a sustainable long-term business case that would support continued operations at the facility.” Unifor, with 9,000 members at Stellantis, has declared negotiations at an “impasse” but has issued no call for a strike even though the contract expired September 21. Instead, Unifor President Lana Payne - a member of the Prime Minister Mark Carney government’s tripartite trade war advisory council - has pleaded with Industry Minister Mélanie Joly to pressure Stellantis to reverse the closure, couching the appeal in Canadian nationalist terms as vital to Canada...",
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