Big Three UAW Workers Ready To Strike, Says Union President
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As GM Authority has extensively covered, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union’s current contract with the Big Three – which includes General Motors, Ford and Stellantis – is set to expire soon. With new negotiations scheduled to commence on July 13th, 2023, UAW President Shawn Fain has gone on record saying that the union is not afraid to go on strike.
According to a report from Reuters, Fain stated that the UAW is prepared to go on strike with any of the Big Three if it doesn’t receive what it perceives as a fair contract. Notably, the union represents 150,000 U.S. hourly workers across GM, Ford, and Stellantis.
“The Big Three is our strike target. And whether or not there’s a strike, it’s up to Ford, General Motors and Stellantis,” UAW President Shawn Fain was quoted as saying. “They’ve made a quarter of a trillion dollars in North American profits over the last 10 years and they can afford to make things right for our members. If the Big Three don’t give us our fair share, then they’re choosing to strike themselves and we’re not afraid to take action.”
It’s worth noting that Stellantis is first up in negotiations, with The General and Ford set to follow on July 18th, 2023. With this in mind, Stellantis released a statement stating that its “focus will be on negotiating a contract that will ensure our future competitiveness in today’s rapidly changing global market and preserve good wages and benefits that recognize the contributions of our represented workforce.”
As a reminder, the UAW has adopted an aggressive stance towards the upcoming negotiations, which leads many to believe that talks between the Big Three and the union will be quite heated. Most recently, UAW officials accused Detroit of neglecting their workers while raking in over $250 billion in profits over the course of the past 10 years, as well as granting executives massive rewards.
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Unions are job killers. They hold the public hostage. Do the job you were hired to do, or let someone who really wants to work do it. BTW…ask Fain what he gets paid. Well over a million dollars.
Big 3 executives should be capped. Workers would be compensated by huge gains on stocks they own. Let them own the company.
Both sides, let’s be smart and fair. Don’t overreach and screw up a good thing that works for everybody, workers, company, and country. Good luck.
God bless the UAW and all the unions of America. They alone have increased the standard of living for ALL working people. Even nonunion shops gain from other workers union contracts. They raise wages for everyone and keep tyrannical employers from making people live in poverty. I have worked for nonunion and union companies. I ALWAYS made more money and had better benefits with a union job.
All unions have ever done for me was hold me back and work at the level of the worst co-worker.
I’ve worked with guys like you. I was a shop steward and saw many that were not adaptable to union jobs. Independent types like yourself were always complaining about co-workers not doing their job when someone else was actually pulling your weight. That being said they were always too chicken $hit to take a company job.
Enlighten us, please. I definitely come from a GM family, my dad and granddad both retired from GM along with several other family members. I would have too but when I was ready to go to work in 1982 we were in the depths of a massive recession and auto plants were laying off, closing down and definitely not hiring so I ended up in the utility industry. Getting ready to retire now myself so yes I have been around and seen a few things. So please enlighten us with your wisdom.
Starting a negotiation with threats and intimidation doesn’t bode well for a quick outcome.
Remember the UAW just changed their bylaws that now requires the UAW president to be voted in by the membership-not appointed. If Fain is seen as the membership as weak, he won’t get reelected. A lot of his talk is bravado, but at the same time the last few presidents really screwed their membership over.
UAW only negotiates for the current members, higher wages to keep up with inflation and higher profit sharing to help offset inflation. I retired in 2006 from GM and have not seen a raise of any kind. No cola and no profit sharing. Inflation hits everyone and has eaten up our pension. GM doesn’t care and the union doesn’t either. The media is silent on the FORGOTTEN fixed income group.
Luckily we have SS cost of living increases. The UAW negotiates for current members because they are the ones paying the dues. I don’t know of any private companies that give cost of living increases to retired workers.
Excuse me while I search for the worlds smallest violin. What the hell were you doing to support retirees when you were working?
Fair share. Where have we heard that garbage before? Right out of the Dem talking point handbook. The UAW – making Bidenomics a stark reality. Go ahead and strike. The jobs you lose will be your own.
Bidenomics? Oh boy! Here we go🙄
that’s terrible to talk strike before they even start talking i was a union guy ufcw for 34 years never talk strike before talks
In all fairness, Fain is!against the EV push and has yet to offer an endorsement to the Idiot-in-Cheif because of it.
Could be worse! Could be Trump! 😂😂🤦
Don’t start with that!! Corporations are making billions in profit. This negative bashing of Unions got us Temps, no pension, $15 a hour while the price of trucks is reaching 80k-100+k! Don’t let Corporate America keep this greed trend. General Motors created the middle class. They are listening to to the haters
Unions are what got you temps. Companies go with temps to not further increase the number of union leaches. Anyone who strikes shoukd be replaced with someone who actually wants to work.
After the China Virus and the supply chain problems that caused, and is still going on, if the union goes in strike I will never buy a vehicle made with UAW labor. I currently have deposits on the Hummer SUV EV and a Blazer SS EV.
Union got me nothing but the raise I expected without a strike. All that hullabaloo to break even and get a raise. I had to take out a loan to get by on the strike pay, which is just about useless. Don’t believe what the news tells you. Not all Union members want to strike. Union leaders? Sure. Guys on the floor, not so much. Skilled trades won’t see what they deserve. They’ve been behind the inflation curve for years and lost benefits/pay compared to cost of living. This is a show for the production employees who’ll be happy with anything they get. The solidarity they speak of doesn’t exist anywhere but in their minds. I’ll be surprised if we actually get ahead of the curve, all things considered. No more lump sum raises! Get the actual raise! That’s stonewalling BS!
I’ve been working as a Tool and Die maker 49 years and counting. The last 16 for GM. My 1st union job. The skilled trade wages of non- union jobs are directly correlated to the UAW wages. Problem for GM is the small non – union shops wages have caught up to GM. We’ve had difficulty hiring skilled trades. You give up a lot of your freedom working for a large corporations. Most don’t offer pensions anymore. If they don’t bring wages up for skilled trades, they will continue to struggle to find qualified candidates. I’ve been through one strike and it sucked! It seems so stupid. Management knows what they need to do. The union needs to stop the threats and negotiate in good faith.
I was overly impressed with my profit sharing. Content with my wages. I’m not content with the strike pay. Or believe in kicking the door into negotiations and it’s I want I want I want. I want to keep my job. So simmer the f down
Without the Union , the big three would have never made it as far as they have . What the Union has negotiated over the years also had positive effects on other corporations that are not unionized. We would not have unions if companies were fair to their employees.
Some say that was true a hundred years ago but maybe not so much today.
At least the comedian has finally entered the conversation to lighten everything up.
“Big Three UAW Workers Ready To Strike, Says Union President”
So, what’s new?? They say the same crap year after year. They are always ready to strike…
GOD BLESS UNIONS. I am not going to attempt explain the need and benefits of UNIONS, for the haters it is like trying to talk to a retarded chimp. HERE is a challenge to the haters tune out everything that is UNION, airline pilots and all support, police, nurses, construction workers firefighters, all professional sports all television actors and support, etc, etc,etc.
Retarded Chimps! Spot on.
I’d like to see guaranteed wage increases. Profit sharing is nice, but the lump sum bonuses are just a band aid to guaranteed hourly pay. Stop with the gimmicks. Hand out the real pay.A raise ABOVE the current inflation rate from the start. You can’t count on the company to make profits all the time. While your at it, stop with the shutdown tradition. It’s obsolete. Forcing me to use my vacation on the company’s time. Not mine. Thats ridiculous. I have to put in time to earn that time to use @ MY discretion. Not at the will of the company. That’s stolen time.
To those lazy republicans that think workers should beg and not bargain, drop dead! You trump supporters.