The United Auto Workers head into the 19th day of strikes with a bold strategy that places the Detroit Three automakers into a high-stakes game of 'Survivor' with a weekly decision on which factories the strike will hit next, with layoffs mounting, suppliers hurting and harsh rhetoric from both sides.
Striking United Auto Workers members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan U.S. September 29, 2023.
Those are large sums, but not in the context of GM or Ford, which have forecast combined pre-tax profits of up to $26 billion for this year. Fain was prepared to order walkouts at one assembly plant for each of the three automakers. At the last minute, he decided not to order a strike at a Stellantis factory because the parent of Chrysler offered new concessions minutes before the union president's scheduled Facebook Live address.
"It is negotiations that are evaluated by the UAW weekly," said Harley Shaiken, labor professor at the University of California Berkley. "Now, if you don't give something that the union wants, you will have another plant on strike." Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that suppliers to the automaker's Michigan Assembly plant, which builds Bronco SUVs and Ranger pickups, are on a "knife's edge" with thousands of jobs at risk.
. The fourth would be a wholly-owned facility planned in Marshall, Michigan, to build low-cost lithium-iron batteries with technology from China's CATL.
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