UAW President Shawn Fain says that UAW may strike 'all of the Big Three at once,' and union prepares for 'standup strikes' if no deal is reached. '
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said Wednesday that autoworkers and the Big Three automakers are still far apart, although negotiations continue, and that the union may strike all of the Big Three at once.
“For the first time in our history, we may strike all of the Big Three at once,” Fain said, adding that he looked at this time as “our defining moment.” “It is possible for strikes at critical parts plants to have much wider implications,” Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, said in an interview with MarketWatch on Wednesday.
Calemine said Fain has done a “masterful job” of painting the fight as a “real showdown” between working families and the companies. But he added that “the principal danger for the union would be losing the narrative. Other places would continue to work, or get laid off or locked out.” Fain said the companies have revised some of their offers: On wages, Ford has put forward a 20% increase over the life of the four-year contract, up from its previous offer of 9%, while GM’s latest offer is 18% and Stellantis’s offer is 17.5%. That’s compared to a wage increase of 40% — or 46% when compounded annually — that the union sought originally and later revised to 36%.
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