MONTREAL: Fiat Chrysler (FCA) has committed to a multi-year investment in assembling electric vehicles in Canada and to add up to 2,000 new jobs, a union representing some of the carmaker’s workers announced Thursday.
The company has agreed to invest up to Can$1.5 billion (US$1.1 billion) in southern Ontario’s Windsor plant as part of a tentative three-year deal with union Unifor, the group’s national president Jerry Dias said in a statement.
Under the deal, Fiat Chrysler’s investment would outfit the factory to assemble plug-in hybrids and battery-powered vehicles, with at least one new model…