The United Auto Workers (UAW) union announced that the grève movement involved the constructeurs automobiles in mid-September entering in “a new phase”, in the augmentation of the name of grève sites but preventing an extension to intervene. it does not matter when”. “Today I am not announcing a new work stoppage. Rather, I am announcing a new phase of the strike,” said Shaun Fain, during his weekly update on the negotiations for the next collective agreements with the three main American manufacturers – “the Big Three”: Ford , General Motors and Stellantis.
Currently, almost 34,000 employees of the three manufacturers, of the 146,000 UAW employees, are mobilized. “From now on, we will mobilize the factories when we need them, where we need them and at very short notice,” said Shaun Fain, accusing the three groups of “dragging things out.”
Call for strike among union members at Ford’s largest plant
But the union surprised this week by calling its 8,700 members to strike on Wednesday at the Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP), Ford’s largest plant that generates $25 billion in revenue per year. “The groups began to wait until Friday to make significant progress in the negotiations,” explained Shaun Fain, elected in May. According to him, Ford presented on Wednesday afternoon exactly the same offer as two weeks earlier, “with no additional money.” Upon leaving the meeting, “we didn’t wait a minute (…) and I called to tell (KTP) to leave.”
Kumar Galhotra, a senior Ford executive, expressed surprise to the group on Thursday at the decision, saying Ford was negotiating “in good faith” and had made an “incredibly positive” offer that would put Ford staff in the top 25 percent. top of the group. best jobs in the United States in terms of hourly wages and benefits. Shaun Fain assured his members that the union is “in a very, very strong position” and has already secured pay increases greater than those granted in the last fifteen years.
Source: BFM TV
