Hearing date set for Titan Tool workers in Windsor

Titan Tool workers in Windsor, Ont., on Thursday, April 9, 2026. (Michelle Maluske/CTV News Windsor)

A hearing date has been set for Titan Tool workers in Windsor.

Twenty-seven workers have been locked out for nine months from the auto parts manufacturer.

According to Unifor Local 195 President Emile Nabbout, they will argue bad faith bargaining to the Ontario Labour Relations Board on May 7.

Nabbout says the employer won’t negotiate a closing agreement nor will they work to ink a new collective agreement.

Nabbout was joined Thursday at the picket line by Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles, who has made three visits since the lockout started “in solidarity” with the workers.

“If that’s not bad faith bargaining, I don’t know what is,” Stiles said Thursday at the Howard Avenue factory.

Stiles says she is going to be calling on the Ford government to intervene and end the lockout when she returns to Queens Park on Monday.