UAW will not broaden auto staff strike

The United Auto Workers mentioned Friday it has made progress within the negotiations with the Big Three carmakers, and didn’t announce any new vegetation that may broaden its ongoing strike.

Nearly 34,000 staff at Ford Motor Co.
F,
+0.95%,
General Motors Co.
GM,
+1.13%
and Stellantis NV
STLA,
-0.37%
are on strike, with the latest labor-movement growth hitting Ford’s extremely worthwhile Kentucky pickup truck manufacturing facility earlier this month.

There was “serious movement” in negotiations at GM and Stellantis, UAW President Shawn Fain mentioned Friday in an handle to the membership.

“The bottom line is we’ve got cards left to play and they’ve money left to spend. That’s the hardest part of a strike. Right before a deal, is when there’s the most aggressive push for that last mile,” Fain mentioned.

Earlier Friday, GM made new proposal to auto staff, reinstating cost-of-living changes and providing compounded raises of about 25% over 4 years.

Auto staff began the strike on the stroke of midnight Sept. 14, strolling out at one plant every of GM, Ford, and Stellantis NV
STLA,
-0.37%.
The union expanded the labor motion to extra factories and services because the weeks glided by.

Striking in any respect Big Three directly was a departure from the long-standing UAW custom hanging at one automobile firm at a time, to avoid wasting picket-line firepower and the strike fund.

During his handle Friday, Fain vowed to accentuate efforts to unionize at extra auto vegetation.

“We are going to organize non-union auto companies like we’ve never organized before,” he mentioned.

Tesla Inc.
TSLA,
-3.69%
has for years fended off efforts to unionize its manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif. Several overseas automakers have U.S. vegetation within the Southeast, the place union traditions will not be because the Midwest.

Source web site: www.marketwatch.com

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