Thousands of workers at Stellantis plant in Michigan joined the United Auto Workers in walking off the job on Monday, nearly six weeks after the union launched its strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers.
Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content DeskSTERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Thousands of workers at a Stellantis plant in Michigan joined the United Auto Workers in walking off the job on Monday, nearly six weeks after the union launched its strike against Detroit’s Big Three automakers.Union officials announced that 6.800 workers at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights Assembly Plant joined the strike on Monday. Stellantis’ best-selling Ram 1500 pickup trucks are made at the facility.
BREAKING: 6,800 Local 1700 autoworkers join the UAW's Stand Up Strike at Stellantis's largest plant, Sterling Heights Assembly!“These are already record contracts, but they come at the end of decades of record decline, so it’s not enough to be the best ever when autoworkers have gone backwards over the last two decades,” he said. “That’s a very low bar.
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