United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said a 21-percent wage hike was not enough as the strike against three major automakers continued into its third day
United Auto Workers members, including President Shawn Fain, center, march past General Motors headquarters in Detroit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The UAW is conducting a strike against Ford, Stellantis and General Motors.
But on Sunday morning, UAW President Shawn Fain said that Stellantis’s 21 percent offer and other terms presented by the automakers aren’t sufficient and that the strike will continue. The strike comes as unemployment in the United States is at historic lows, but fallout from the pandemic and higher inflation have boosted worker anxiety. Companies have continued to post profits and increase executive pay, and the autoworkers are among a broad resurgence in union activity in the United States as workers from nurses to Hollywood script writers and actors seek better pay and job security.
“It’s all of our hope that it will end sooner rather than later. But record profits have been generated,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries , who was traveling to Detroit on Sunday. “It’s only fair that everyone share in those record profits in the prosperity that has been created.” “We can’t experience the American Dream that so many autoworkers before us, like my grandfather, got to,” said Hudson, whose grandfather was able to own a house and two cars while putting his kids through college on an autoworker’s salary. By contrast, Hudson said he and his co-workers are “struggling” to do the same on their own salaries.
For his part, Fain has said another Trump presidency would be a “disaster,” but he has held off from endorsing Biden, saying the president must earn his self-styled moniker of the “the most pro-union president” in history.
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