Canadian autoworkers blockade minivan plant
By Martha Grevatt posted on January 13, 2021
Members of Unifor Local 444, at FCA’s Windsor, Ontario, minivan assembly plant, blockade gates to oppose threats to cut members’ jobs.
Since Jan. 5, Unifor Local 444 has blockaded the FCA minivan plant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Plant workers normally build 830 Chrysler Pacifica vans per day. The blockade of entry and exit gates will prevent minivans from being driven off the assembly line, when production resumes Jan. 11 after the temporary idling around the holidays.
At issue is FCA’s contract with a third party whose workers drive the assembled vehicles off the line. When its contract with Auto Warehouse Company expired, FCA did not renew it, instead giving the work to another company, Motipark.