The Belvidere Assembly Plant, idled since 2023, is expected to reopen in 2027 with 1,500 union members returning to work, pending the installation of new equipment and the completion of a battery plant and parts distribution hub.

President Donald Trump and the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section are fighting over tariff policy – again. Trump railed against a Wednesday editorial in the Journal that said, with some evidence, that auto-heavy Michigan would be hurt by tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that Trump is once again threatening to impose.

UAW Local 1268 President Matt Frantzen updated union members on plans for re-opening the Belvidere Assembly Plant. Here is what he told them.