Stellantis executives previously had championed remote working when it instituted its "New Era of Agility" in 2022.

Europe-based auto giant Stellantis is expanding its American manufacturing, but social media claims that auto jobs would be moved from Canada to the United States after Donald Trump assumed the presidency are false.

In an internal company memo seen by AutoNews, Stellantis noted that its interim leader, Chairman John Elkann, met with President Trump ahead of the Inauguration to discuss the aut

The UAW announced it would suspend its grievances against the company after Stellantis announced it would reopen the Belvidere plant in Illinois and call back 1,500 workers, and make major investments in others, including its Detroit Assembly Plant.

The United Automobile Workers union has been pressing the automaker, which owns Chrysler and Jeep, to revive the plant in Belvidere, Ill.

There's a void in the midsize truck segment found in Auburn Hills, Michigan these dats. Since the departure of Dodge's Dakota, the FCA-turned-Stellantis chunk of the medium pickup category has been empty, but a leaked memo obtained by Crain’s Chicago Business makes clear that's set to change soon.

The UAW believed the company was going back on its plant investment commitments. Now, as Trump takes office, the automaker has renewed its U.S. plans.

The efforts of the United Auto Workers bureaucracy to collaborate with Trump, based on their shared "America First" economic nationalism, have accelerated in since the inauguration.

Saving the Belvidere factory from permanent closure was a key part of a new contract with the United Auto Workers in 2023. Stellantis originally agreed to make an electric truck at Belvidere, create a new EV battery facility and expand its parts-distribution facility into a regional megahub.

John Elkann, chairman of Jeep-maker Stellantis, wasted no time reassuring President Trump of the global automaker’s commitment to U.S. manufacturing. The scion of Italy’s famous Agnelli family met with Trump last week to emphasize the company’s support for American workers.

Among other agreements, Stellantis will reopen the Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois in 2027 to produce a new midsize truck.

Chrysler parent Stellantis is moving forward with plans to build a new midsize pickup truck in Belvidere, Illinois, the company said on Wednesday, ending months of conflict with the United