General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union clashed late Thursday ove...
) and the United Auto Workers union clashed late Thursday over how to end a 25-day strike that has cost the company over $1 billion, according to letters seen by Reuters.
The UAW began strike action on Sept. 16, with the union’s 48,000 members seeking higher pay, greater job security, a bigger share of the automaker’s profit and protection of healthcare benefits. Details of that offer have not been made public. GM said the day before the strike began that it had offered to make $7 billion in new U.S. investments in eight facilities in four states, but did not specify timing, location or products with the exception of a planned electric truck. Since then, it has offered additional concessions, but has not disclosed any details.
UAW Vice President Terry Dittes, who heads the union’s GM department, said in a letter earlier on Thursday evening to GM that the union would not reply to GM’s latest proposal until committees discussing five specific issues had completed their work. UAW workers are concerned that as GM shifts to more electric vehicles it will require fewer workers, and battery production may result in workers getting paid less than at existing transmission plants.
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