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DETROIT (AP) — Pressure in rising on General Motors as the lone holdout in a strike targeting all three big Detroit automakers after a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis was reached with the United Auto Workers union over the weekend. The Ford agreement revives cost-of-living adjustments that the UAW agreed to suspend in 2009 during the Great Recession. At Stellantis, workers get cost-of-living pay that would bring raises to a compounded 33%, with top assembly plant workers making more than $42 per hour. Overnight, 8,200 Stellantis workers in Canada represented by a different union, Unifor, walked off the job. At the peak, about 46,000 UAW workers were on strike — about one-third of the union’s 146,000 members at all three companies.

Persons: Stellantis, ”, Erik Gordon, Ford, Shawn Fain, Fain, Chuck Browning, ” “, ” Browning, Gordon, Bruce Baumhower, ” Unifor, ____ Bajak, John Raby, Corey Williams, Haleluya Organizations: DETROIT, General Motors, Detroit, United Auto Workers, UAW, Ford, GM, Saturday, Silverado, Sierra, Vehicles, GMC Acadia, Cadillac, University of Michigan, ” “ UAW, Jeep, “ Locations: American, Spring Hill , Tennessee, Texas , Michigan, Missouri, Spring, Mexico, Arlington , Texas, Detroit, America, Stellantis, Toledo , Ohio, Canada, Unifor, Boston, Charleston , West Virginia, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Jersey City , New Jersey

☆ UAW deal with Ford includes $8.1 billion in investments, $5,000 ratification bonuses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Members of the United Auto Workers union picket outside the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, on Sept. 26, 2023. DETROIT – Local United Auto Workers union leaders approved a tentative agreement Sunday with Ford Motor that includes $8.1 billion in new plant investments by the company, $5,000 ratification bonuses and other economic gains such as 25% compounded wage increases and improved profit-sharing payments. The 4 ½-year tentative agreement, which was announced Wednesday, will now be rolled out to 57,000 UAW-Ford members for regional informational meetings and then voting, the union said Sunday. UAW leaders outlined some details of the tentative agreement last week but released the summary and more than 800-page contract Sunday after local union leaders approved it for member voting. The UAW announced a tentative deal Saturday with Stellantis, however, it has yet to reach a new agreement with GM, despite the sides being close to a deal last week.

Persons: Shawn Fain, Chuck Browning Organizations: United Auto Workers, Plant, DETROIT – Local United Auto Workers, Ford, UAW, General Motors, Chrysler, Stellantis, GM, Ohio Assembly, Louisville Assembly, Ford Expedition, Lincoln, Kansas, Kansas City Assembly Locations: Michigan, Wayne , Michigan, Kentucky, Kansas City

☆ UAW reaches tentative agreement with Stellantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —The United Auto Workers union has reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis, which makes vehicles under the Dodge, Ram, Chrysler and Jeep brands, a source familiar with the negotiations told CNN. The tentative agreement with Stellantis Saturday follows a similar deal reached with Ford Wednesday. Ford’s deal gives union workers sizeable pay and benefits increases to contend with inflation that has taken a bite out of workers paychecks. When the cost-of-living adjustments and guaranteed raises are combined, they are expected to raise Ford workers’ wages 30% or more. At the time the Ford deal was announced, there were 16,600 members on strike at Ford, 14,200 on strike at GM and 14,600 on strike at Stellantis.

Persons: Ford, “, ”, Chuck Browning, Todd Dunn, Colin Langan, Wells, Stellantis, Langan Organizations: New, New York CNN, United Auto Workers, Stellantis, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, CNN, Ford, UAW, General Motors, GM, UAW Local, Kentucky, Sterling Locations: New York, Detroit, Stellantis, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Arlington , Texas, Arlington, Wells Fargo

☆ How the UAW and Ford struck a historic deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

On Wednesday, after 41 days on strike, the UAW and Ford reached a tentative agreement. The Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan is where Ford Chairman and fourth generation controlling family member Bill Ford spoke about negotiations for the first-time last week. That speech perturbed UAW President Shawn Fain, who responded with a threat. What comes nextGetting the deal done with Ford was a big hurdle, according to a third source with knowledge. The Ford CEO said the deal the UAW was looking for would bankrupt the company.

Persons: Ford, Bill Ford, Shawn Fain, Jim Farley, ”, Fain, Benjamin Dictor, Dictor, Chuck Browning, “ Ford, “ We’re, Browning, Taylor Glascock, Farley, John Lawler, CNN’s Chris Isidore Organizations: CNN, United Auto Workers, Kentucky, Plant, UAW, Ford, General Motors, Arlington Assembly, UAW Ford Department, Ford UAW, GM, Ford Motor Co, Chicago Assembly Plant, General Motors Co, Stellantis, Bloomberg, Getty Locations: Louisville, GM’s, Arlington, Texas, Michigan, Rouge, Dearborn , Michigan, Dearborn, Chicago , Illinois

☆ UAW closing in on deals with both GM and Stellantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Chris Isidore | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

There are about 29,000 UAW members currently on strike at GM and Stellantis. That deal still needs to be ratified by a vote of 57,000 UAW members at Ford before it will take effect. If deals are reached at GM and Stellantis by Friday, the union could begin the ratification process at all three at the same time. Membership approval of any deals reached at GM and Stellantis would also be needed before they would take effect. Most recently it added the largest Stellantis plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Monday, and the largest GM plant in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday, shortly after GM reported stronger than expected quarterly earnings.

Persons: Ford, Colin Langan, Wells, Stellantis, Langan, “, ”, Chuck Browning, Todd Dunn Organizations: New, New York CNN, United Auto Workers, General Motors, UAW, GM, Ford, Stellantis, Sterling, UAW Local, Kentucky Locations: New York, Detroit, Stellantis, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Arlington , Texas, Arlington, Wells Fargo

☆ What’s next for the auto strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Chris Isidore | Vanessa Yurkevich | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But the strike at the company isn’t quite over, and there’s no immediate end in sight for the strikes at General Motors and Stellantis. And pay increases will be even greater for some workers who were being paid at a lower pay tier. Generally union members do not return to work when a tentative agreement is reached until after a ratification vote is concluded. The Mack Trucks deal also had double-digit pay hikes of 10% immediately and 20% over the four-year life of that contract. But it didn’t have the COLA or some of the other gains the union achieved in the deal at Ford.

Persons: “, Ford, Isaiah Goddard, He’s, ”, Chuck Browning, Shawn Fain, “ We’re, John Deere, Mack Trucks, Fain, John Lawler Organizations: New, New York CNN, Ford, General Motors, United Auto Workers, Chrysler, CNN, UAW, Stellantis, GM, Management, Fortune, EV Locations: New York, Ypsilanti , Michigan, Ford

☆ Ford Reaches Tentative Labor Deal With UAW Six Weeks Into Historic Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Nora Eckert | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

UAW union members have been striking over job security and pay as automakers push forward in developing EV’s, which require fewer workers and cost more in raw materials. So what does that mean for the future of auto workers and the union? Illustration: George Downs/The Wall Street JournalThe United Auto Workers secured a new tentative labor deal with Ford Motor Wednesday night, potentially ending a six-week strike at one automaker while negotiations continue at General Motors and Chrysler-parent Stellantis . The labor agreement, which is subject to a member vote before being ratified, contains a 25% wage increase during the span of the contract, including an 11% bump in the first year, according to Chuck Browning , the UAW’s lead bargainer with Ford. The overall increase, which will be spread out over four years, would put the top wage for assembly workers at around $40 an hour.

Persons: George Downs, Chuck Browning Organizations: Street, United Auto Workers, Ford Motor, General Motors, Chrysler, Ford

The truth is we are going to wreck the billionaire economy," said UAW President Shawn Fain. UAW vice president Chuck Browning, who is leading talks with Ford, told a rally of hundreds of UAW workers in downtown Detroit on Friday afternoon that recent talks have made "good progress, but we have far to go." Striking workers said "tier two" employees can make only half the hourly wages of senior UAW workers and get worse benefits. GM said on Thursday the UAW wage and benefits proposals would cost the automaker $100 billion, but did not elaborate. Biden's likely opponent, former president Donald Trump, on Friday criticized the shift to EVs as a job-killer for the UAW.

Persons: Ford, We’re, Shawn Fain, Chuck Browning, Joe Biden, Bruce Baumhower, Rebecca Cook, Arthur Wheaton, Jim Farley, Mary Barra, Bernie Sanders, “, Sofus Nielsen, Biden, Julie Su, Gene Sperling, White, Stellantis, Fain, Biden's, Donald Trump, Joseph White, Kevin Krolicki, David Shepardson, Steve Holland, Mehr Bedi, David Gaffen, Peter Henderson, Matthew Lewis, Chris Reese Organizations: DETROIT, United Auto Workers, General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler, Ford Bronco, Chevrolet, UAW, Ford, Detroit, Ford Michigan Assembly Plant, REUTERS, Cornell's School of Industrial, Labor, CBS, Reuters Graphics, Tesla, GM, Thomson Locations: Chevrolet Colorado, Kansas, Detroit, Toledo , Ohio, Wayne , Michigan, Barra, Wayne, Milan, Washington, Bengaluru

☆ Auto industry braces for contentious contract talks as UAW formally kicks off bargaining
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Rebecca Cook | ReutersDETROIT — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain promised union members he'd do things differently during contract talks with the Detroit automakers this year. Playing hard ball"We're in the process of changing the culture of this union from a reactionary, defensive union, to an aggressive and offensive-minded union," Fain said last month during a Facebook livestream. The deals cover roughly 150,000 UAW members who work for the automakers. United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Detroit, Sept. 25, 2019. "The federal government is pouring billions into the electric vehicle transition, with no strings attached and no commitment to workers," Fain said earlier this year.

Persons: Shawn Fain, Rebecca Cook, he'd, Fain, Gary Jones, Bill Ford, Ford Fain, —, Jim Farley, Chuck Browning, We've, … We're, Joe Biden, John Murphy, Stellantis, Reuters Stellantis, What's, Michael Wayland, BofA's Murphy, Steve Fecht Organizations: Reuters DETROIT — United Auto Workers, Detroit, UAW, Motors, Ford Motor, Ford, Headquarters, Facebook, " Bank of America Securities, General Motors, BofA Securities, GM, Fiat Chrysler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, FCA Sterling Heights Assembly, Reuters, United Auto, United Auto Workers, Hamtramck Assembly, CNBC, Center for Automotive Research, Deere, Co, Caterpillar, Ultium Cells, LG Energy, Tech Center Locations: Detroit, Illinois, Stellantis, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Hamtramck, Lordstown , Ohio, Warren , Michigan

☆ UAW to open contract talks with Detroit Three automakers on Thursday
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] UAW President Shawn Fain talks with the media after chairing the 2023 Special Elections Collective Bargaining Convention in Detroit, Michigan U.S. March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Rebecca CookJuly 10 (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union said on Monday it will open contract talks with Detroit's Big Three automakers starting on Thursday, ahead of the mid-September expiration of the current four-year labor deal. UAW President Shawn Fain has said repeatedly that the UAW wants to eliminate the two-tier wage system under which new hires earn as much as 25% less than veterans. Instead, UAW leaders will meet with auto workers on Wednesday at three Detroit-area plants to mark the beginning of talks. The White House said it has named adviser Gene Sperling as a "point person" on the UAW automaker labor talks.

Persons: Shawn Fain, Rebecca Cook, Detroit's, Fain, Ford, Jim Farley, Chuck Browning, Farley, Joe Biden, Biden, Gene Sperling, David Shepardson, David Gregorio, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Detroit , Michigan U.S, REUTERS, United Auto Workers, Detroit's Big, Chrysler, Ford Motor, General Motors, UAW, GM, Detroit Free Press, U.S, Ford, South Korea's SK, Thomson Locations: Detroit , Michigan, Detroit, Washington

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