The United Auto Workers (UAW) union struck a General Motors (GM.N) assembly plant in Texas on Tuesday that builds the U.S. automaker's profitable full-size sport utility vehicles, in another significant expansion of the strike.
United Auto Workers union members picket outside Ford's Kentucky truck plant after going on strike in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Luke Sharrett/File Photoassembly plant in Texas on Tuesday that builds the U.S. automaker's profitable full-size sport utility vehicles, in another significant expansion of the strike.
The workers took the strike to Arlington Assembly, home to some of GM's most profitable vehicles, the Chevy Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade."Another record quarter, another record year. As we've said for months: record profits equal record contracts," said UAW President Shawn Fain. "It's time GM workers, and the whole working class, get their fair share.
UAW chief Fain on Friday said the Detroit Three had converged on a 23% wage hike offer and made progress on other issues. But he told UAW members "there is more to be won". GM and Ford had said additional cost-of-living increases already take their total compensation offers to over 30%. Those talks are complicated, because the ventures are separate companies and the automakers do not have to cover them under their master UAW contracts under U.S. labor law.
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