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Unifor reached a tentative agreement with Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. early Tuesday morning, overcoming significant internal strife and resistance from the company to secure a $700-million product investment.

The union was cagey about the details of the agreement, which was reached after the midnight strike deadline had passed, but it appears that it did manage to secure the pattern set in earlier negotiations with General Motors of Canada Co. and FCA Canada Inc. despite earlier resistance from Ford.

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Unifor’s top priority in all three rounds of negotiations was securing new products at each of the Detroit Three. Earlier investments from GM and FCA totalled close to $1 billion, and union president Jerry Dias proclaimed the 2016 negotiations “an incredible success.”

“We weren’t uttering idle threats, we were dead serious,” he said.

Ford has agreed to invest “the overwhelming majority” of the $700 million in one of its two engine plants in Windsor, Ont.