Earlier this week, GM and the UAW reached a tentative contract agreement, temporarily ending the union’s Stand Up Strike while the contract proposal goes under review by the UAW GM council before members are invited to ratify it or not. In the meantime, UAW GM members have returned to work and the automaker’s facilities are up and running again.
Prior to the agreement reached between the union and The General, workers at four vehicle plants went on strike, including the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri, GM Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan, GM Arlington plant in Texas, and the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee. Notably, 18 parts distribution centers were also affected by the strike.
Unfortunately, there were also a number of workers laid off as a ripple effect of the strike. In total, roughly 2,500 GM employees were furloughed due to the lack of available work producing stamped components for vehicle production. In addition, production of the Chevy Malibu and Cadillac XT4 was forcibly halted at the GM Fairfax, Kansas assembly plant.
“We can confirm that our manufacturing plants and Customer Care and Aftersales (CCA) sites that had been shut down have all now restarted and are running production and parts distribution operations,” GM Spokesperson David Barnas confirmed in a prepared statement.
As a reminder, the tentative agreement between the two parties is subject to ratification by the automaker’s 46,000 union members. Although the exact details have yet to be released, the proposed contract bears similarities to those the UAW negotiated with rivals Ford and Stellantis.
For General Motors, the end of the strikes is a welcome sight, as it was estimated that the Detroit-based automaker lost upwards of $800 million in revenue even before the Arlington and Spring Hill plants were idled.
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the workers should all be smiling all day long while working their shift.