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Unifor eyes ‘first unionized battery plant in Canada’

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Greg Layson
January 28, 2025 04:56 PM
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NextStar Energy said it has hired 450 people in Windsor, Ont., and about 230 of them are hourly. (NEXTSTAR)

Canada’s largest private-sector union is pushing to organize hourly employees at electric-vehicle battery factories across Ontario.

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