Union President Shawn Fain says during a Facebook Live appearance that the automakers' offers have fallen far short of union demands on wages as well as key issues such as pensions, cost-of-living adjustments and a...
UAW President Shawn Fain has said a contract extension when the current pact expires Sept. 14 is unacceptable, and the union could choose to strike one, two or all three automakers.
The UAW’s demands have been categorically panned by Wall Street analysts, who describe them as unrealistic and unaffordable. But they are not out of line with other major contract settlements across the economy.
The union files unfair labor practice complaints against General Motors and Stellantis with less than two weeks before its national contracts with the Detroit Three expire.
UAW President Shawn Fain is encouraging his members to hold practice pickets around the Detroit automakers’ factories to underscore the union's determination to make big gains this year.
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Negotiators representing auto workers in Canada say they are preparing to make the Ford Motor Co. target as the union prepares to discuss the transition to electric vehicles.
“Our members are working 60, 70, even 80 hours a week just to make ends meet – that’s not a living,” UAW President Shawn Fain says. “That's barely surviving, and it needs to stop.”