Roman Shimonov, Roshel’s CEO, said in an interview on Toronto’s CP24 that the armoured-car maker will seek to hire locals at the Brampton auto plant it has agreed to buy, but Roshel’s deal with Stellantis doesn’t include the roughly 2,200 workers there who have been laid off since 2023. (CP24)
Talking point: The Stellantis workers’ union, Unifor, called the transaction a betrayal by both Stellantis and governments that have promised to protect autoworkers targeted in the United States’s trade war against the sector in Canada. The automaker, meanwhile, said it will repay money it received from the Canadian government to retool the factory—before it decided to move production to the U.S. instead.
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