After reaching a tentative agreement with Ford and Stellantis, the UAW has increased pressure on GM by ordering its members at the Spring Hill plant in Tennessee to walk off the job.
The Spring Hill plant is the automaker’s largest facility in the United States. It currently builds the Cadillac XT5, the Cadillac XT6, the Cadillac Lyriq and the GMC Acadia, in addition to producing engines for various Chevy, GMC and Cadillac trucks assembled in other North American plants.
There are now close to 20,000 GM workers on strike, including roughly 4,000 UAW members at the Spring Hill plant now joining the picket lines on the 44th day of the union’s Stand Up Strike. It currently affects production at the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri that builds the Chevy Colorado, the GMC Canyon, the Chevy Express and the GMC Savana, the GM Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan that builds the Chevy Traverse and Buick Enclave as well as the GM Arlington plant in Texas that manufactures the Chevy Tahoe, the Chevy Suburban, the GMC Yukon and the Cadillac Escalade. The General’s 18 parts distribution centers across the United States are also affected by the UAW strike.
The effects of the strike also pushed General Motors to halt Chevy Malibu and Cadillac XT4 production at its Fairfax, Kansas assembly plant, in addition to laying off workers at various parts production plants.
This latest event comes shortly after the union announced a tentative contract agreement with Stellantis, which includes wage increases, the reinstatement of cost-of-living adjustments, the elimination of wage tiers, improved retirement pensions and the right to strike over product and investment commitments. The tentative deal, which must be voted in by UAW members working at Stellantis, also includes new product allocation for the automaker’s Belvidere plant in Illinois, idled since early 2023 and which previously manufactured the Jeep Cherokee.
Following the strike expansion Spring Hill, General Motors released a statement on its dedicated UAW negotiations website. “We are disappointed by the UAW’s action in light of the progress we have made. We have continued to bargain in good faith with the UAW, and our goal remains to reach an agreement as quickly as possible.”
During its Q3 2023 earnings presentation, General Motors estimated its strike losses at roughly $200 million a week and more than $800 million overall, before the UAW announced the Arlington facility strike – considered to be the world’s most profitable auto assembly plant.
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Lock the gates.
Fain is acting like a spoiled child instead of an adult. By keeping his foot on GMs neck (and not keeping his word about NOT closing Arlington), he is demonstrating a mob-like mentality instead of a business-minded one.
For every plant he shuts down by striking the workers, GM should “lower” their offer by 5%.
UAW workers probably aren’t paying dues, during a strike. Therefore, it’s no surprise that Fain “tentavily” agreed to Ford & Stelantis. He wants the UAW dues to keep coming. Somone has to pay his enormous salary!
You have that right. It looks like Fain is doing his best to reduce the members in the union. Gm and the rest are likely to repeat what they did in the 70’s. The US still hasn’t got those jobs back.
A mob like mentality would have meant shutting every plant down at the same time, which he did not do.
Ford and Stallantis shouldn’t have caved.
The entitlement of some people. Just hurry and replace them with robots
Thank you brother, I am happy to here ignorance doesn’t exist in everyone .
P.S. for the uneducated, labor cost is 5% of UAW built vehicles. Google what the CEO’s of GM, Ford and Stellantis make per year.
What does that have to do with union workers?
The more UAW gets, the higher the cost of vehicles.
5%
1. If it were so simple and cost effective to “replace the employees with robots”, they would have already did it.
2. The labor costs of a new vehicle are less than 10% of the cost of it. But Bidenomics and sky high inflation has had nothing to do with massive increases in transportation costs and supplier parts price increases in the last 3 year’s.
I’m always amused by the uneducated and uniformed comments I read here by the armchair auto experts who’ve never worked a day in the industry.
I had some sympathy for the UAW in the beginning but not anymore. #%*< the UAW! My next new vehicle will be a Japanese import. Think I kidding? I haven’t watched a baseball game since they went on strike.
You act like the UAW has the authority to make decisions such as vehicle design, parts suppliers contracts and costs or delivery times? They dont! Isn’t the Toyota or Kia forums calling you now?……See ya!
I mentioned previously that someone I know ordered a Lyriq back in August.
I’m guessing this will delay it.
Communists are not worth working for GM. Replace them with robots
Say goodbye to your job genious.
Says Jake, the guy who misspelled the word genius…..LMAO!
Fire the worthless UAW workers and hire professional employees that take pride in their work!
So the electrics being built in Mexico are not affected. I can expect to see the Equinox EV by January 2024
About time. This is Mary’s fault. GM has dragged its feet all summer. This contract should have been settled months ago. I guess Mary Barra’s greed has no limits.
“Put that in your morning coffee Mary Barra.”
The sheer contempt for working class taxpayers and the assumption stupidity of some of the comments I read here is truly astounding. You have millions of individuals contributing nothing to society and leaching off taxpayer’s, and all you idiots can do is condemn individuals who are attempting to better their lives, contribute to the economy while simultaneously paying in taxes by doing so. If you’re upset because union members are getting pay raises and benefits you would desire, either quit b!tching and get hired at an auto plant (remember, its so easy), or do us all a favor and quit whining already.
Tentative agreement reached is being reported.
Strikes are management’s fault. Reliability problems are management’s fault. Quality of the vehicle when it rolls out the door is the responsibility of management. Poor and nonexistent marketing is management’s fault. The only thing we can rely on with gm is piss poor management.
Shawn Fain is the best leader the UAW has had since Walter Reuther and he’s only going to get better as a negotiator. I hope Roger Smith in a pantsuit is ready to roll up her sleeves and get some real work done instead of telling us about the latest pipe dream of electric vehicles.
UAW means Unemployed Auto Workers.
Just a matter of time.
Looks at the membership numbers.
Not even half of what they once were.
UAW “Leaders” are crimminal parasites.
UAW ” members” are a vanishing bad memory.
I see all you non union guy think that the union workers shouldn’t get a wage increase. There trying to survive in the ever increasing increasing of everything costing a lot more. I guess the corporations, ceo’s and auto makers make out regis salaries. Stop being heartless and consider the life of a working class guy tring to survive and supporting his family.