The United Auto Workers will strike at midnight at all three major Detroit automakers at once for the first time in its history, union president Shawn Fain said Thursday night.
Ford, General Motors and Stellantis contend that they need to make huge investments to develop and build electric vehiclesA UAW strike looms as negotiations continue with Stellantis, GM and Ford but the sides remain far apart, union president Shawn Fain said.The United Auto Workers will go on strike at midnight at all three major Detroit automakers at once for the first time in its history, union president Shawn Fain said Thursday night.
Union President Shawn Fain said Wednesday the automakers have raised initial wage offers but have rejected some of the union's other demands. The company, he said, has made a generous wage offer, eliminated wage tiers, restored cost of living pay increases and increased vacation time. The union disputes his contention that tiers were ended.
The union president said it is still possible that all 146,000 UAW members could walk out but that the union will begin by striking at a limited number of plants. The UAW also is seeking restoration of cost-of-living pay raises, an end to varying tiers of wages for factory jobs, a 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay, the restoration of traditional defined-benefit pensions for new hires who now receive only 401-style retirement plans, pension increases for retirees and other items.
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