UAW President Shawn Fain said that while the union won’t expand its strike at the moment, it will no longer wait until Fridays to announce new plans
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Friday that the union will not expand its strike against the Detroit Three automakers at the moment, but said they would now walk out of additional facilities without warning rather than wait until Fridays to announce new plans.
Automakers have more than doubled initial wage hike offers to a range between 20 per cent and 23 per cent, agreed to raise wages along with inflation and improved pay for temporary workers. But the union wants higher wages still, the abolishment of a two-tier wage system and a clear path to organizing new joint-venture battery plants.
Analysts at Wells Fargo estimated that Ford will lose about $150-million per week in core profit from the Kentucky plant strike. The Detroit automakers will report third-quarter financial results between Oct. 24 and Oct. 31, and the UAW could use what are expected to be robust profits to press their case for a richer contract.
Todd Dunn, president of the UAW local that represents the 8,700 workers at Ford’s Kentucky truck plant as well as those at the nearby Louisville assembly plant, said the truck plant walkout was necessary because Ford “took advantage of fact they had a reprieve” for the past two weeks and stopped making progress on key bargaining issues.
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