He United Auto Workers (UAW) union and General Motors (GM) have reached a provisional agreement to end the strike that began on September 15 in several of the car manufacturer’s workplaces in USAas confirmed by sources familiar with the negotiations.
The news comes days after the UAW negotiated similar agreements first with Ford and then Stellantis, the other two American automakers affected by the labor dispute. Neither the UAW nor GM have officially confirmed the agreement at this time.
On Saturday, after announcing that it had reached an agreement with Stellantis, the UAW expanded the strike at GM by declaring a strike at the profitable Spring Hill assembly plant in the state of Tennessee. In total, about 18,000 GM workers were on strike at more than a dozen workplaces across the country.
Neither the UAW nor GM have yet confirmed the agreement, which is expected to follow the guidelines of those reached with Ford and Stellantis: 25% wage increases over the next four years, permanent job security for temporary workers, improved benefits for retirees and unionization of the new battery plants.
On Sunday, UAW President Shawn Fain called the concessions wrenched from Ford “a historic victory” and “a turning point in the class war” that exists in the United States.
The agreements with the Big Three of Detroit (GM, Ford and Stellantis), which now have to be ratified by workers, put an end to the first simultaneous and progressive UAW strike and one of the largest in the history of the automotive sector. automobile in the United States.
Fain has also stated that the labor dispute will serve to revitalize the union movement in the United States.
Source: Gestion
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