Auto plants are high-tech power- houses, yet they can’t attract enough employees.

The industry's shift to EVs means automakers need to provide fresh skills to workers trained to build and service fossil-fuel models.

The labour shortage only worsened during the pandemic, forcing companies to look outside Canada to fill vital roles.

Unifor’s newly elected national president Lana Payne sat down with Jamie Butters, executive editor of sister publication Automotive News in Detroit and the host of the Automotive News Daily Drive Podcast, to talk pattern bargaining, organizing Japanese plants in Canada, the country’s expanding battery supply chain, inflation and more.