{"id":126268,"date":"2026-07-12T01:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/126268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T01:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T01:33:39","slug":"ford-of-canada-and-unifor-reach-tentative-agreement-on-new-national-labour-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/126268\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford of Canada and Unifor Reach Tentative Agreement on New National Labour Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The following statement is attributable to\u00a0Meredith Keenan, vice president of Human Resources, Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">TORONTO, July 11, 2026 \/CNW\/ &#8211; Ford of Canada and Unifor have reached a tentative agreement on a three-year national labour contract covering more than 5,000 unionized employees in Canada.  <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/27ED6AE94986A50B2EF69E5BF4FEE6179339C3D8B1DA9CC261031F33839A6952\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fcnw.ca%2F0932995000a9c2cf42ae1dba085dd5f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Ford of Canada\" height=\"200\" width=\"400\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/><\/a> Ford of Canada           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The agreement is subject to ratification by Ford-Unifor members. To respect the ratification process, Ford of Canada will not discuss the specifics of the tentative agreement.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">About Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited <br \/>Ford of Canada&#8217;s operations include a national headquarters, three vehicle assembly and engine manufacturing plants, three parts distribution centres, and three Connectivity and Innovation centres. Ford employs approximately\u00a06,500 people in Canada, while an\u00a0additional\u00a020,000\u00a0people are employed in the\u00a0approximately\u00a0430\u00a0Ford and Ford-Lincoln dealerships across the country.\u00a0For more information, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4729720-1&amp;h=2861978150&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ford.ca%2F&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ford.ca%2F\" data-ylk=\"slk:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ford.ca%2F;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.ford.ca\/&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ford.ca\/<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Media Contact:<br \/>Rose Pao<br \/>289.838.5398<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/mailto:Rpao@ford.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rpao%40ford.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Rpao@ford.com&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Rpao@ford.com<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/12A078095F5C8E846F938F75CD6871E00D71D4970AFFDDE33732BFF7CFFB2CF0\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fcnw.ca%2F009ef8656edb3de9a83254876399e5b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"Cision\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" class=\"yf-lglytj loader\"\/><\/a> Cision           <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\"> View original content to download multimedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/July2026\/11\/c9968.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.ca%2Fen%2Freleases%2Farchive%2FJuly2026%2F11%2Fc9968.html;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/July2026\/11\/c9968.html&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/July2026\/11\/c9968.html<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following statement is attributable to\u00a0Meredith Keenan, vice president of Human Resources, Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,42211,24777],"class_list":["post-126268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-ford-of-canada","tag-tentative-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}