Stellantis, the corporate that owns Chrysler and Jeep, mentioned on Wednesday it deliberate to reopen a manufacturing facility in Illinois and enhance manufacturing elsewhere in the US, a transfer that’s prone to resolve a number of simmering disputes with the United Car Employees union.

The reopening can be doubtless to assist the corporate in its relations with the Trump administration, and is among the many first large adjustments made by an interim administration crew that has been operating the corporate since its chief govt, Carlos Tavares, resigned in December.

“These actions are a part of our dedication to put money into our U.S. operations to develop our auto manufacturing and manufacturing right here,” Antonio Filosa, the corporate’s chief working officer in North America, mentioned in an announcement.

The announcement follows a latest assembly between Stellantis’s chairman, John Elkann, and President Trump, the corporate mentioned. Mr. Elkann informed the president that Stellantis, whose headquarters are in Amsterdam, aimed to strengthen its U.S. manufacturing base and was dedicated to safeguarding American jobs and to the broader U.S. economic system.

Stellantis, which additionally owns Fiat, Dodge, Ram and Peugeot, idled the Illinois plant, in Belvidere, in early 2023. Later that yr, it agreed in a brand new contract with the U.A.W. to reopen it. In August 2024, the corporate mentioned it was delaying the reopening after its gross sales and revenue tumbled.

The U.A.W. responded by submitting grievances with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board, alleging that Stellantis was not abiding by the 2023 contract.

Stellantis mentioned on Wednesday that it deliberate to make a medium-size pickup truck in Belvedere, and that it will rehire some 1,500 union employees.

The corporate additionally mentioned it will transfer ahead with plans to provide a brand new Dodge Durango sport-utility car at a plant in Detroit. The U.A.W. had feared Stellantis was making ready to maneuver manufacturing of the car to Mexico, and the union had filed grievances on that problem as nicely.

“This victory is a testomony to the facility of employees standing collectively and holding a billion-dollar company accountable,” the U.A.W. president, Shawn Fain, mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday. “We’ve proven that we’ll do what it takes to guard the nice union jobs which might be the lifeblood of locations like Belvidere, Detroit, Kokomo and past.”

The White Home press workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

In its assertion, Stellantis additionally mentioned it will make investments in its crops in Toledo, Ohio, the place it makes the Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator fashions. Extra investments may even come to an engine plant in Kokomo, Ind., the corporate mentioned.