{"id":138012,"date":"2026-07-21T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/138012\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:46:09","slug":"ford-unifor-sign-deal-including-1-25-billion-in-canadian-manufacturing-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/138012\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford, Unifor sign deal including $1.25 billion in Canadian manufacturing investment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unifor said the agreement renews a no-closure provision and secures program commitments at all Ford Canadian facilities, tying the investment directly to job security for members.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith multi-hundred-million dollar investments in our facilities and a plan to return every laid off member in Oakville to work, this agreement means our members at Ford are in a solid position now and over the next three years,\u201d said Unifor\u2019s Ford Master Bargaining Chairperson John D\u2019Agnolo.<\/p>\n

The union also negotiated a pathway back to “full employment” for workers laid off from the Oakville plant, targeting completion by July 1, 2027, along with a $10,000 special payment for members currently on indefinite layoff there.<\/p>\n

Unifor National President Lana Payne said the agreement was reached amid difficult industry conditions, stating, “Negotiating during a crisis is never easy, but our driving goal was to make a wide range of improvements for all of our members building on the gains made in 2023”.<\/p>\n

Canada’s manufacturing sector<\/a> has been posting its fastest pace of growth in three years, with motor vehicle and parts output jumping sharply as auto assembly plants in Ontario ramped back up after retooling shutdowns, according to a previous report. That report noted the rebound in machinery, auto and other durable goods points to renewed hiring pressure in skilled trades, maintenance, engineering and production supervision, as plants that had shut down lines for retooling begin bringing them back online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unifor said the agreement renews a no-closure provision and secures program commitments at all Ford Canadian facilities, tying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,15706,4642,24778],"class_list":["post-138012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-ford","tag-manufacturing","tag-unifor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138012","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=138012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}