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UAW Submits New Offer To GM Following Tentative Deal With Ford

After reaching a tentative contract agreement with Ford this week, the UAW has submitted a new offer to GM during their latest negotiations on Thursday, October 26th. The strike affecting the Detroit Three automakers has now reached its 42nd day.

The UAW has submitted a new contract offer to GM. Shown here is a manifestation of UAW members.

This latest contract negotiations update was reported by Automotive News. While details of this new offer aren’t available at this time, it likely includes higher wage increases and other economic gains for union members, in addition to the right to strike over plant closures. GM’s latest offer to the UAW, submitted on October 20th, included a 23-percent general wage increase and 25-percent compounded increase over four years, the reinstatement of cost-of-living adjustments, a ratification bonus for all team members, a faster path to employment and wage increases for temps, a pension plan rate increase, and more.

After reaching the tentative deal with Ford, the UAW asked its members to pause their strike and go back to work, in a bid to put additional pressure on General Motors and Stellantis to agree on a new contract. The UAW’s members working at Ford facilities will receive all the details of the tentative contract agreement on Sunday, followed by a vote next week to ratify or not said contract.

The UAW strike 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.

During its Q3 2023 earnings presentation, General Motors estimated its strike losses at roughly $200 million a week and more than $800 million overall, but that was before the UAW announced the Arlington facility strike – considered to be the world’s most profitable auto assembly plant.

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.

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  1. Why Is When The Arlington Plant Is On Strike…But Orders For Tahoes And Suburbans Are Allowed At Dealerships…No Build And Price Online For 2024’s Tahoes And Suburbans At Chevrolet.com….No Prices Yet For Either If Ordered Now…What Is The Big Secret?…It Has Already Been Stated That MSRP Will Be A Additional $2100…..Are We Waiting For A Additional Strike Surcharge???

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    1. No doubt there will be a strike upcharge. Corvette was raised 2,000 for new model yr 24’s. and then overnight 2 weeks ago added another 2,000 dollars to the cars. You know there going to get there money back by raising the prices and screwing the new car buyers

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      1. I believe it will be just the opposite and we’ll see incentives on new vehicles in order to stimulate sales.

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  2. Will not anyway they can kiss their jobs goodbye the automakers will figure out how to offshore more their jobs plus the electric vehicles are going to need a lot less on hand to build them automakers know this and they’re just buying time to get rid of them so get ready to go for the unemployment line just like the steel industry greed killed that

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    1. Jealous much?

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      1. Please expound.

        Mr. Harden is supposedly jealous of what exactly?

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        1. that they negotiated themselves a good contract? if they were replaceable like all the bots claim, they already would have been replaced.

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          1. @ lol

            The fact is, they are replaceable, but the US is in a “worker shortage”. There are ~1.7 positions available per every single unemployed person (US Dept. of Labor). When people are paid a respectable wage to sit on the couch and eat Fritos, why would they seek work? For instance, 8-10 years ago, Ford put out a largescale ad, looking for 1,000 workers to fill new positions. They didn’t even receive 500 applicants. The US was built upon pride, honor, respect and hard work. People were embarrassed to take government handouts. Not anymore.

            If some people believe that fast food workers should make $15-20 per hour to make a hamburger, empty grease traps and change urinal mints, that is their deal. In the same respect, if some people believe that assembly line workers should make $50 to attach a windshield wiper, that is their deal too. These jobs are unskilled and I mean no ill intent. As a civil engineer, I do not see the logic or rationale, but the labor unions call the shots. Their tentacles are wrapped around everything. There is a reason why so many of these union bosses (across all trades) are doing 10-20 years in a federal penitentiary. Fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, etc., is no joke. 🙁

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            1. sure everybody is replaceable, as a single unit. thats why something called a union is not a single unit. now does it make sense to you or will you continue to write novels i aint got time for?

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              1. To each their own and best of luck.

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              2. It’s amazing how mad people get when workers exercise their rights in the workplace and show union solidarity.

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                1. Their mad when they make 25$/hr with an advanced degree and 60K of debt and can’t afford a new car yet AUW workers, who run things like the drug cartels are boasting theyre making 40$/hr with no degree to turn screws and they keep the union tight and closs with family members . The UAW is the mob full stop. Screw them

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                  1. Says Steve, the guy who posts here on his company’s time and adds to the non value added bottom line and profits of his employer.

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                    1. I’m a field engineer, make less than 40/hr, and due to the amount of travel I do, have varying hours. You can go back and see that I post all over the clock, but never while I’m at work. Yeah, I think. The UAW if full of it, and the reason I’m a field engineer is they make more than most. Lots of positions want 25/hr for a maintenance/Petro/powerplant engineer in the Midwest. If we’re being honest. Top pay for turning screws should be 22.50/hr, with the average being mid teens. This is why Detroit looks like escape from new york

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                2. @ James Robert

                  If you are insinuating that I am mad, you are gravely mistaken. The only thing that concerns me, is that since the UAW chose to strike, there is a ripple effect across the entire auto industry. Part manufacturers, tire manufacturers, truck drivers, locomotive engineers, etc., etc., etc.. These people do not even work for GM, Ford, Stellantis, Mack, etc., but they are being negatively affected.

                  My great-grandfather, grandfather and father all worked for the same union. Unions once served a purpose. They fought for fair wages, on the job safety and more. They are now a far cry from their initial mission. Arguing for a 40% raise, a 32 hour work week and other jaw-dropping demands? My wife has been in the union for 19 years and just removed herself from it a few months ago. We will now save several thousand dollars per year on union dues and other fees. I’m assuming that the head of her union will only be able to buy two beach houses, instead of three.

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                  1. So, you’re saying that you are proud to be a freeloader? Enjoy the fruits of those that paid for representation to get the benefits that your wife gets while paying nothing. Classic cheap free rider, live off others money.

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                    1. Please stop, you’re embarrassing yourself. Hiding behind a computer monitor and using unintelligent and low-brow ad hominem, cements your legacy.

                      A freeloader? Hardly. I am a civil engineer and my wife is a teacher.
                      We do quite well for ourselves.

                      Paying thousands of dollars in union dues per year is a waste. On top of that, one of her union “so and so’s” was just indicted on fraud charges. I’m absolutely stunned. A union bigwig misappropriating funds? Say it ain’t so.

                      Do yourself a favor and learn how to think logically and rationally in order to hold a civil conversation.

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                3. I’m happy for UAW members if in fact they ratify the tentative agreement. I’m not aware of what job guarantees are in the new proposal. With the average price of $48,000 for a new car you have to start thinking about how many consumers are able to afford that. Personally I believe we are reaching a point where we will be seeing annual new car sales falling, which in turn means a reduction in the amount of used cars available to those who can’t afford to buy new.
                  I don’t know what effect this will have on job security at UAW plants. Hoping this works out for all 4 sides, the manufacturers, the employees, the consumers, and the shareholders. Time will tell, but I believe the employees and consumers, will be the ones with the black eyes, the manufacturers will continue to lose market share driving down profits and share holders will feel that. Hoping I’m wrong.

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        2. Yeah, upon further review, there is no call on the play. His was a really tough post to parse, though.

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      2. Guess who is paying for these raises

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    2. Electric vehicles need almost 2-3X as many hands to build, it’s just they aren’t GM hands. They’re all children’s hands….. in the Congo or Canton region of china… all for 5¢ an hour

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  3. Growth in truth is this; having a opinion is known as “free-will” with that said E.V’s will not do anything. That’s why Tlesa charging stations are using Disel Generators. 😆 Why the keystone pipeline has come back online, so again “free-will” is a choice. So make your choices wisely cause inflation reduction isn’t that know is it? Sometimes waking up is simply observing. Say less. To the honor and glory of Yahshua.

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  4. They will have priced me ( and countless others) out of buying a new vehicle. Christ knows I need something more recent that what I’m driving. Fain is off his rocker.

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    1. Yea, and while prices of new vehicles rose 30% since 2020, but UAW wages rose only 6% and labor represents less than 10% of the cost of a new vehicle, it must be the UAW and the workers they represent at fault for it all.

      Step 1: Do your research
      Step 2: Post a comment

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  5. See what happens when senior execs get a 40% raise but try to lowball raises to the workers that pay their salaries? They lose their moral authority to enforce it. Public overall is on the side of the UAW (online echo chamber is not a representative sample of opinion). And it wasn’t until the most profitable auto plants were shut down that the execs are now suddenly interested in settling.

    Moral of the story: Walk the talk on wage raises…don’t award yourself more than you’re prepared to offer to employees.

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  6. Let’s be real here, even if these companies are paying $10 per hour, you all know full well that the MSRP will still be hiking up. You want the MSRP to go down, don’t buy their products… period.
    For the folks complaining that they are making too much money, good! I much rather them get paid for doing work and not be a bum while receiving government assistance. Plus, they pay taxes and move the economy forward.
    If you’re unhappy with what you’re earning, “strap up your boot straps” and go work for them, or be your own boss and open up a business. Moping around and being jealous of their earnings doesn’t get you anything but bitterness.

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    1. Amen! The ones that always complain about union workers are the ones that don’t have the balls to stand up to management and demand a better wage.

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    2. Prices will collapse here quickly. New car sales are down, housing sales are down, and the only reason the collapse hasn’t happened yet is the feds are still spending at covid levels. Lots of free money if your sitting on your ass or with a corrupt goverent contract. Why do you thing lux barge trucks and SUV’s keep flying off the lots and lower trims barely move? As soon as the government teat runs dry prices will collapse by as high as 70%. Whatch out. Also, there will be no bail out this time. Any attempt to bail out anyone will result in the printing death spiral that Zimbabwe saw in the 90’s.

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      1. “Sitting on your ass”, Isn’t that largely what engineers get paid to do do Steve? And while we’re expounding and making assumptions as to what auto workers actually do on the job, I’ve work closely with Industrial engineers for over 30 years and they all had 1 thing in common……when tasked, none had the backbone or agility to do the very jobs they were attempting to set up on the assembly line. “Just putting in screws you say Steve? Assumptions, the mother of all screw-ups

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  7. Go back to work you lazy bastards!!

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