Canadian and U.S. auto unions will part company.

The Canadian wing of the United Auto Workers approved an agreement with the Detroit-based UAW to split the international organization into two and form an independent Canadian union. The vote marked the end of a 50-year brotherhood between the Canadians, with 135,000 workers in 107 union locals, and the 1-million-member UAW. The Canadian organization, to be named the Canadian Auto Workers, will receive $29 million in cash and $2.5 million in real estate and mortgages as part of the breakup.