The president of the United Auto Workers union is taking a tough stance against General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. His members seem to like it.
All summer Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, has been reminding people—mainly, the Big Three U.S. auto makers—that Sept. 14 is a hard deadline. Contracts for nearly 150,000 workers at Ford Motor, General Motors, and Stellantis expire late Thursday night and the threat of a strike looms if deals aren’t in place by then.
Fain consistently hammers home the profitability of auto makers and says it’s time for workers to get their share. “Our plants have been closed, families torn apart. Our standard of living has dropped like a rock,” he said on a recent livestream. Fain ran as a change candidate who would fight for members at the bargaining table. The election went to a runoff and, in March, Fain won by a margin of just under 500 votes.
“You’ve got folks who’ve got to go eight years to get to full pay right now,” says Todd Dunn, President of UAW Local 862 in Louisville, Ky. That was unheard of when he started working at Ford in 1995, he says. An offer from Ford in late August proposed eliminating tiers.
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