GM has announced that it will furlough an additional 139 workers at the Parma Metal Center in Ohio due to the downstream effects of the United Auto Workers (UAW) labor strike. The workers were furloughed following the UAW’s announcement that it would expand the ongoing strike to include the GM Arlington plant in Texas. The furloughed workers were laid off because no work was available with regard to stamping components for use in production at the Arlington facility.
Per a report from Detroit Free Press, General Motors announced the furloughs Wednesday. The 139 furloughed workers are in addition to 137 workers previously furloughed following UAW strikes at the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri and the GM Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan, once again due to a lack of work producing stamped components for vehicle production. More than 30 workers have been furloughed at the automaker’s Marion, Indiana Metal Center as well.
In a statement, General Motors said that the “negative ripple effects due to the UAW leadership’s targeted strikes are now currently impacting six GM plants across five states and more than 2,460” employees. The UAW did not provide an immediate comment on the most recent furloughs.
The UAW expanded its strike to the General Motors Arlington plant in Texas earlier this week. The Arlington facility produces The General’s full-size SUV models, including the Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Suburban, Chevy Tahoe, and GMC Yukon, and is considered the most-profitable auto plant in the world. The walkouts at the Arlington facility adds a further 5,000 workers to the UAW picket lines, with an estimated 45,000 UAW workers now on strike across all three of the Big Detroit makes (General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis). The UAW represents 150,000 workers across all three makes.
The UAW announced its initial round of strikes on September 15th following the expiration of the previous labor contracts, now marking six weeks since the strike began. It is estimated that the strike has cost General Motors $800 million so far.
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again, furlough. not laid off. this misreporting is becoming a meme
@lol where do you see “laid off”? Per a report from Detroit Free Press, General Motors announced the furloughs Wednesday. The 139 furloughed workers are in addition to 137 workers previously furloughed following UAW strikes at the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri and the GM Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan, once again due to a lack of work producing stamped components for vehicle production. More than 30 workers have been furloughed at the automaker’s Marion, Indiana Metal Center as well.
In the title of the story.
GARY Davis is going to be coming back work
IMHO, unions have outlived their usefulness. Years ago there was a need for them before all the current labor laws but now all they do is drive up prices with their outrageous demands and reduce productivity. My brother worked for an airline union many years ago at JFK. The shop steward approached him and told him he was working too fast and making the others look bad. He told him that this is the speed he works at. Two days later all 4 tires on his car were slashed. He quit and went to work for Grumman (union free) and was never happier.
I have many more stories of unions doing things wrong so they could get paid to do it again, to workers getting paid to do nothing. Unions get no sympathy from me.
More comments from the cheap seats.
How much time have you spent on the assembly line? With comments like that I’ll bet probably none.
Correct. I would never work for a union where the person next to me gets the same raise I do even if they do half the work I do. Where you could produce 100 items but only do 75 because the union tells you not to do more.
I worked in an industry where hard work was rewarded and initiative was welcomed.
Yep. A form of social welfare!
Sorry to disagree. Unions are still needed. I work for USPS, letter carriers are unionized there is a National Agreement in place. Management violates it constantly and.quite honestly without the contract the working conditions would be beyond horrible
Yep! Thats exactly what goes on even at places like school districts where mechanics work under unions. Yep!
Stop dragging your feet GM and get this strike resolved.
Looks like more work will be going to Mexico and China
Blame the unions.
The problem is not with the actual workers but rather the union leadership from the bottom to the top. They are the ones who rile up the workers and convince them that their li0ves are $hit.