The United Auto Workers Union is on strike against Ford, Stellantis and GM, known as the Big Three U.S. automakers, after the latest contract expired on Thursday.
UAW Shawn Fain, pickets with union members outside the Ford Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich."The Big Three can afford to immediately give us our fair share," Fain told UAW members on Wednesday.
"The Big Three can afford to immediately give us our fair share," Fain told UAW members on Wednesday.increases to as high as 20% in the most recent offers. The union argues those offers don't sufficiently account for years of stagnant wages. "It addresses what you've told us is most important to you, in spite of the heated rhetoric from UAW leadership," Barra said in a statement about GM's latest offer, which would raise wages by 20% over the length of the contract.
Ford sources told reporters on Thursday that meeting the UAW's demands in full would completely halt new production due to much higher labor costs.
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