The United Auto Workers (UAW) labor union has announced that workers at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) have been called on to strike as of Monday morning. The Stellantis SHAP facility is the automaker’s largest plant and its biggest moneymaker, producing the light-duty Ram 1500 pickup truck. The new strike adds a further 6,800 union members to the picket line, with roughly 40,000 members currently striking following an initial round of strike targets announced last month.
“Despite having the highest revenue, the highest profits (North American and global), the highest profit margins, and the most cash in reserve, Stellantis lags behind both Ford and General Motors in addressing the demands of their UAW workforce,” the union writes in a statement. “Currently, Stellantis has the worst proposal on the table regarding wage progression, temporary worker pay and conversion to full-time, cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), and more.”
Last week, UAW President Shawn Fain delivered a summary of contract negotiations with the Big Three Detroit automakers (GM, Ford, and Stellantis), detailing the latest contract offers from each. The union has yet to agree to any of the current proposals, but did highlight which automakers offered the best proposals with regard to wage tiers, cost of living allowance (COLA), temp employees, and more. The latest strike expansion against Stellantis follows a shift in the UAW’s “Stand Up Strike” strategy, with the union now calling for walkouts with little prior notice. The union previously announced strike expansions on Fridays.
The UAW announced its initial round of strikes on September 15th following the expiration of the previous labor contracts, marking the first time that the union has called for strikes at all three of the Big Detroit automakers simultaneously. The union has expanded its strikes on several occasions since. The union’s strategy calls for workers at certain facilities to walkout as needed, rather than all union members all at once, which is believed to provide union negotiators with greater flexibility. The UAW represents 150,000 workers across all three makes.
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The union bosses are doing the job they are instructed to do by their billionaire, Marxist handlers: Join the fight to cripple the US economy, keep collecting those union dues, in order to pad their already bloated bank accounts, demand $75-80 per hour to install a seatbelt, so it appears that they are “for the little guy”, etc., etc., etc…
Karl Marx appreciates everyone’s obedience.
Nice rant. But what’s your solution?
My great-grandfather, grandfather and father all worked in the union. My wife has also been a member of a union over the past 19 years and has since quit the union. We will now save thousands $$$ per year on wasted union dues. Let’s begin…
The unions no longer serve a purpose. When first formed, they were a brotherhood of workers that were fighting for fair wages, on the job safety, etc.. What they have morphed into is pure thuggery by the union bosses that make tons of money off of the union dues of the average worker. There is a reason why an abnormally large amount of these mobsters are in federal prison for imbezzlement, fraud, money laundering, etc., etc., etc..
Fain is now the Tundra’s number one sales guy.
Fain striking all of the big three truck plants still wouldn’t help that turd sell!
Those Trucks are selling, they don’t stay on the Dealer lots for long down here in Columbus, GA.
I want the union workers to strike on the UAW next. Demand lower dues.
They get to vote on their dues rates.
Maybe Roger Smith in a pantsuit will start to earn her money. Arlington just walked out.
I can’t wait until the UAW runs out of strike funds and Fain is kicked to the curb. What a clown.
Let them strike their way out of a job since he doesn’t understand that those profits will allow for the companies to move forward with future projects and vehicles. Yes, I would love to see the workers get increased pay, but not at the expense of Parts Suppliers who had nothing to do with them going on strike to begin with.
And the extortion continues.
The UAW is cutting their own throats. New car lots are already littered with 50 and 60 thousand dollar trucks nobody can afford. The imports must be laughing their a$$es off.
It’s time for the Big Three to grow a ‘set of balls’ and move on without the UAW support.
I’m curious as to what effect this will have on the suppliers to the Big 3. And will there be shortages because of suppliers not surviving the strike and/or getting back up to speed. It will be interesting to see what happens after the strike is settled.
Fain has lost his mind. He needs to learn that the most important stakeholders are the CUSTOMERS who won’t be buying severely overpriced vehicles after he’s done. No sales = no jobs. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Why do the UAW workers always get the blame? I’ll bet if you walked into the corporate HQ of any of the big three and looked around at all of the suits (management, mid-management, lower management. In other words, people that don’t get their hands dirty) you would say what in the world do all of these people do? How many nuts and bolts, steering wheels, transmissions, seats etc have to be assembled to pay for these guys? We’ve probably all seen smaller companies that we deal with on a daily basis get top heavy. I speculate that these big corporations are extremely top heavy. I have not read anyone say that has been adding to the cost of the vehicles?
Hank i can agree with you on some of your thoughts, yet those white collared workers applied for those jobs and went through the schooling and or internships to get those jobs. Now i do agree there are in my mind too many of those jobs and i think you soon will be seeing a lot of those jobs go away. Now the blue collared worker also signed up for the job or applied for the job they have at the rate of pay that was offered. Now im not saying they don’t deserve more money but when you ask for as much as the UAW mob bosses have asked for its simply Ludacris. While the big three may actually go along with some of the DEMANDS of the crooked UAW, how long b4 you think they say you know what, let’s move all assembly to Mexico and not have to pay all those wages n benefits? I’m just afraid they are eventually going to strike their selves out of a job.
If gm and other companies raise prices because of so called shortages plus other reasons but profits are also record setting, it doesn’t take a junior Einstein to figure out what’s happening. Then the UAW wants their cut. When you get right down to it though, the consumer has earned some of the blame also. If you feel the price is too high, quit buying. By purchasing overpriced vehicles, you are telling gm the price is ok. Any company can put any price they want on any item. It’s the consumer who accepts it or not.