The United Automobile Workers, four weeks after launching limited strikes against three major automakers, is now adopting a more aggressive approach, suggesting that the work stoppages may spread to other plants and last for a long time.
Shawn Fain said in an online video that he will no longer delay announcing the expansion of the strike on Friday as he has done. Additional actions may occur at any moment.
“We are not wasting time,” said Mr. Fain. The companies have been put on notice. We will give them a little push if they don’t want to change.
The strike began on 15 September when the workers of General Motors (G.M.), Ford Motors (Fomo), and Stellantis (which makes Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram) walked out. The union has expanded its strike overtime to put more pressure on companies.
Stellantis announced on Friday it would temporarily lay off 700 additional workers from two Indiana plants that provide transmissions and castings to a Toledo Jeep factory in Ohio that was idled by U.A.W. strikes. Stellantis laid off 1,300 employees in total as a result of the union’s strike.
Ford laid off over 1,900 employees as a consequence of the strike and G.M. About 2,300. Ford reported that about 90 of its suppliers have laid off approximately 13,000 employees.
Stellantis said that its talks with U.A.W. had also progressed. This week. The company stated that it was hoping to “reach an agreement as quickly as possible so everyone can get back to work.”
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The U.A.W. Unexpectedly, workers were told to leave the Kentucky Truck Plant of Ford in Louisville. The plant is Ford’s largest, and it produces the highly profitable Super Duty variant of the F-Series pickup truck.
Ford said that the Kentucky plant produces a truck about every 37 seconds and generates 25 billion dollars in revenue. This is approximately 16 percent of Ford’s total annual revenue.
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The union is concerned as well about possible job losses due to the increase in the production of electric cars by automakers. The companies offered wage increases greater than 20 percent spread over four years and reduced to four years the time required for a new employee to reach the top salary.
Ford officials stated on Thursday that the company has reached its limits in terms of what it can offer to the union without affecting the company’s ability to invest heavily in electric vehicles. On a Thursday conference call, Kumar Galhotra said that any more would stretch the company’s ability to support.
Mack Trucks, a company that is not a car manufacturer but represents workers represented by the U.A.W., went on strike last week. This week, its members approved a strike against General Dynamics. The U.A.W. The U.A.W.
