A United Auto Workers (UAW) member on a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, US, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The United Auto Workers began an unprecedented strike at all three of the legacy Detroit carmakers, kicking off a potentially costly and protracted showdown over wages and job security.
The United Auto Workers union significantly escalated its walkout against Detroit's Big Three automakers, shutting down Ford's largest factory and threatening Jeep maker Stellantis.
The strike came nearly four weeks after the union began its walkouts against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis on Sept. 15, with one assembly plant from each company. High-ranking Ford executives responded that they are working on possibly bringing electric vehicle battery plants into the UAW national contract, like GM did, essentially making them unionized. But they didn't have a significantly different economic offer, the executive said.
But Ford and the other automakers have made concessions and raised wage offers, he said. The companies, he said, "may have reached their resistance points to varying degrees." Executives, he said, have bottom-line positions they can't cross in terms of staying competitive with other automakers. The UAW expanded its strikes on Sept. 22, adding 38 GM and Stellantis parts warehouses. Assembly plants from Ford and GM were added the week after that. The Kentucky strike brings to 33,700 the number of workers on strike against the three automakers.Since the start of the strike, the three Detroit automakers have laid off roughly 4,800 workers at factories that are not among the plants that have been hit by the UAW strikes.
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