GM estimates the financial provisions of the tentative agreement will raise the per-employee cost of wages and benefits to more than $150,000 per year.
The General Motors agreement reached Monday is patterned after contract proposals the UAW signed with Ford and Stellantis, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
UAW officials say union members will begin returning to work at Ford as soon as practical to put additional pressure on General Motors and Stellantis, where thousands of workers remain off the job as part of the UAW’s...
The latest phase of the UAW’s efforts to meet its contract demands targets the automakers’ largest sources of revenue and profits: expensive pickup trucks and SUVs.
Until now, Stellantis had avoided publicly criticizing the UAW. General Motors and Ford executives have pleaded their companies’ cases in public remarks and news releases. All three automakers have been rebuked by the...
UAW leaders will not say whether the union will expand the current strikes, which now involve 34,000 of the 150,000 union members employed by GM, Ford and Chrysler parent Stellantis.
UAW President Shawn Fain has repeatedly emphasized during the strike that union members have been shortchanged over the past decade and have seen their standard of living decline.
Union President Shawn Fain says the UAW no longer will announce expansion of the strikes during his Friday Facebook Live appearances but instead will call for members “to join the strike with little notice.”