Throughout its 5-week-old strikes against Detroit’s automakers, the United Auto Workers union has cast an emphatically combative stance, reflecting the style of its pugnacious leader, Shawn Fain.
File - United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain raises his fist at a rally in Detroit, on Sept. 15, 2023. Armed with a list of what even Fain called audacious demands for better pay and benefits, the UAW leader has embodied the exasperation of workers who say they've struggled for years while the automakers have enjoyed billions in profits.
What began with 7,000 workers at one factory each of Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis has grown toacross the country. Officials at all three companies note that they have sweetened pay offers and offered numerous other concessions.
Krunzel said she and her husband had prepared for the strike and aren't yet worried about their finances, though she said some workers are. “Saying you're broke and then all of the sudden passing out dividends because you're not broke — that flies in the face of your own statement,” Killian said. Nicodemus doesn't recall Fain as being particularly outspoken about economic inequities — probably, he said, because there wasn’t much inequality in Kokomo. Nearly everyone’s parents worked at either Chrysler or General Motors' Delco factories.
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