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☆ Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: UAW Shawn Fain's 'Bernie Sanders-type tactics' won't play well in the South
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp: UAW Shawn Fain's 'Bernie Sanders-type tactics' won't play well in the SouthGeorgia Governor Brian Kemp joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the UAW's push to unionize thousands of autoworkers in the South, why he believes unionization efforts could result in layoffs, state of the U.S. economy, inflation concerns, the EV market, and more.

Persons: Brian Kemp, Shawn Fain's, Bernie Sanders Organizations: Georgia, South Georgia, EV Locations: U.S

☆ Hyundai joins Honda and Toyota in raising wages after auto union wins gains in deals with Detroit 3
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

South Korean automaker Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Hyundai said Monday it will raise factory worker pay 25% by 2028, matching the general wage increase won by the UAW during that period. Toyota raised factory pay 9% to 10% starting in January, while Honda said it will increase wages 11% during the same period. Fain said terrified auto executives at nonunion plants are raising wages, and he called Toyota's pay increase the UAW bump. When cost of living wages are factored in, workers will get about 33% raises, with the top assembly line employee making about $42 per hour.

Persons: Honda, Shawn Fain's, Fain Organizations: Hyundai, Honda, Toyota, United Auto Workers, Detroit, UAW, Labor, General Motors, Ford

South Korean automaker Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers. Toyota raised factory pay 9% to 10% starting in January, while Honda said it will increase wages 11% during the same period. Fain said terrified auto executives at nonunion plants are raising wages, and he called Toyota's pay increase the UAW bump. By early next year the company said it will have increased factory worker pay 14% in the past year. With its increases, Toyota’s top factory worker pay will go to $34.80 per hour in January.

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☆ How the UAW's drive to 'end tiers' will change GM
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The tentative 4-1/2 year deal will pull more than 7,000 UAW workers in GM component plants, service parts warehouses and what GM calls "subsystems" operations up to the higher wage levels paid to assembly plant workers. As at Ford and Stellantis, GM will raise pay for temporary workers and give them a faster path to full-time status and wages. Eliminating tiers of lower-paid UAW workers at the Detroit Three was a top priority for Fain and UAW bargainers. Fain and UAW members would often wear red t-shirts printed with the slogan "End Tiers" at rallies and on picket lines. GM "has been the worst actor" in creating tiers of lower-wage UAW employees within its operations, Booth said in an Oct. 20 video address.

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The UAW said that 8,700 union members at Ford's Kentucky truck plant went on strike after the union said the No. [1/4]United Auto Workers (UAW) members strike outside of Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. October 11, 2023. Even with Wednesday's walkout, only about 22% of the 150,000 UAW workers at the Detroit Three automakers are on strike. The walkout in Kentucky will put stress on Ford UAW members beyond the sprawling factory near Louisville. Workers at a dozen other Ford plants that supply engines, transmissions and other components to the plant could be furloughed.

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☆ UAW launches strike against Ford's Kentucky truck plant, signaling major escalation in labor fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

DETROIT – United Auto Workers has unexpectedly expanded its U.S. strikes at Ford Motor to a highly profitable SUV and truck plant for the automaker in Kentucky. ET at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant, where the automaker produces Ford Super Duty pickups as well as the Ford Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator. The union's decision to strike the plant, which is Ford's largest in terms of employment and revenue, is a major escalation in its targeted, or "stand up," strikes. Fain said the union expects Stellantis and Ford Motor to follow suit, including battery plant workers in eventual contract agreements. Only 25,200 workers, or roughly 17% of UAW members covered by the expired contracts with the Detroit automakers, are currently on strike.

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Fain also wants workers at the plants to make top UAW assembly plant wages, which now are $32 per hour. Political Cartoons View All 1205 Images“The battery plants are going to be the make-or-break issue,” said Sam Abuelsamid, a mobility analyst for Guidehouse Insights. And if lower-paying battery plants aren't union, workers won't have anywhere to get the same wages and benefits. But they also see a future where buyers could switch, and they think wages at the battery plants should match what they make. The UAW, he said, will use this to try to organize other Korean-owned battery plants.

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UAW President Shawn Fain, in a Facebook live event, said that by targeting distribution centers the strike becomes a nationwide event. Fain said Ford had improved its contract offer, including boosting profit sharing and agreeing to let workers strike over plant closures but said the union still has "serious issues" with Ford. Nearly 13,000 UAW workers walked out at plants in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio on Sept 15. "GM and Stellantis are looking at stockholder value and Ford is looking a lot more long-term that they have to make friends with labor." Fain said on Friday that the union had negotiated the elimination of lower wage tiers in some components facilities at Ford and GM.

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☆ Automakers question UAW's strike motives after leaked 'chaos' messages
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain (center) marches with UAW members through downtown Detroit after a rally in support of the union's members as they strike the Big Three automakers, Detroit, Michigan, Sept. 15, 2023. DETROIT – Major automakers are calling into question the United Auto Workers' motives in launching targeted strikes in light of leaked messages by a union director calling to "keep them wounded for months." Ford communications chief Mark Truby said in a statement Friday the leaked messages are "disappointing, to say the least, given what is at stake for our employees, the companies and this region." In response to The Detroit News, Furman would not confirm writing the messages but according to the paper, called them "private messages" that "you shouldn't have." The leaked messages come as Fain on Friday announced additional plants the union plans to strike as part of its "stand-up strikes," a nod to historic "sit-down" strikes by the UAW in the 1930s.

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Talks continued between union representatives and company management on the sixth day of a coordinated walkout, a day after Ford (F.N) averted a strike by Canadian workers. The UAW launched a strike against Ford, General Motors (GM.N) and Stellantis last week, targeting one U.S. assembly plant at each company. UAW workers also want to end a tiered wage structure that they say has created a large gap between newer and older employees, forcing some to work two jobs to make ends meet. We’re serious about this,” said Victor Holloway, 24, of Westland, Michigan, who has worked at the Ford plant in Wayne, Michigan, since 2021. U.S. President Joe Biden is wearing a red tie on Wednesday in solidarity with UAW workers, the White House said.

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