United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Sept. 25, 2019 with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (far left) in Detroit.
DETROIT – The United Auto Workers union appears ready to take a hard line when it comes to national negotiations this year with the Detroit automakers, warning of strikes or work stoppages, if needed.
UAW President Shawn Fain said the "union will not accept any concessions" from General Motors , Ford Motor and Stellantis – a lofty mission in such negotiations.
Contract talks between the union and automakers usually begin in earnest in July ahead of mid-September expirations of the previous four-year agreements.
Union leaders, led by Fain, are largely newly elected officers that ran on platforms of standing up to companies and reforming the organization following a years-long federal corruption scandal that partially involved prior negotiations.
Persons:
Vermont Sen, Bernie Sanders, Shawn Fain, Fain, Ford
Organizations:
United Auto Workers, General Motors, Hamtramck Assembly, Vermont, Detroit . DETROIT –, Detroit, UAW, Ford Motor, Union, Detroit automakers, GM
Locations:
Detroit, Hamtramck, Detroit .