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DETROIT (AP) — Less than two weeks after ratifying new contracts with Detroit automakers, the United Auto Workers union announced plans Wednesday to try to simultaneously organize workers at more than a dozen nonunion auto factories. The UAW says the drive will cover nearly 150,000 workers at factories largely in the South, where the union has had little success in recruiting new members. Also on the union's list are U.S. factories run by electric vehicle sales leader Tesla, as well as EV startups Rivian and Lucid. “You don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck,” union President Shawn Fain said in a statement appealing to nonunion workers. At the end of the contract top-scale assembly workers will make about $42 per hour, plus they’ll get annual profit-sharing checks.
Persons: Tesla, Shawn Fain Organizations: DETROIT, Detroit automakers, United Auto Workers, UAW, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Ford, General Motors Locations: Georgetown , Kentucky
General Motors expects new labor contracts with the United Auto Workers and Canadian union Unifor to increase its costs by $9.3 billion and add approximately $575 in costs per vehicle during the terms of the deals. GM disclosed the expected labor deal impact as part of a business update Wednesday in which it initiated a $10 billion accelerated stock buyback program, increased its dividend and reinstated its full-year 2023 guidance. GM said the $9.3 billion in labor cost increases are expected to occur as follows: $1.5 billion in 2024; $1.8 billion in 2025; $2.1 billion in 2026; $2.5 billion in 2027; and $1.1 billion from January-April 2028. GM's expected vehicle cost increase includes $500 per vehicle in 2024. Chrysler parent Stellantis , which was the second of the so-called Big 3 U.S. automakers to reach a deal with the UAW, has not disclosed expected costs of its labor pact with the union.
Persons: , Mary Barra, John Lawler Organizations: Motors, United Auto Workers, Canadian, UAW, GM, Detroit, Ford Motor, Ford, Chrysler, CNBC PRO Locations: , U.S
The United Automobile Workers union announced Wednesday that it was undertaking an ambitious drive to organize plants owned by more than a dozen nonunion automakers, including Tesla and several foreign companies — a goal that has long eluded it. The move comes weeks after the U.A.W. In addition to Tesla, the targets of the drive are two other electric vehicle start-ups, Lucid and Rivian, and 10 foreign-owned automakers: Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen, Mazda and Volvo. If the U.A.W. secures a foothold among those companies, it could signal a big shift in the American auto industry, where nonunion manufacturers have long had a significant cost advantage over the Detroit automakers.
Persons: Tesla Organizations: United Automobile Workers, General Motors, Ford Motor, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen, Mazda, Volvo, Detroit
According to Fain, workers at some nonunion plants, including the electric vehicle sales leader, Tesla, have contacted the UAW about joining the union, which hasn't even begun its organizing efforts. Fain declined to say which nonunion companies the UAW would target first. The union, Fain says, also will have to organize Detroit automakers' EV battery plants, which are joint ventures with South Korean companies. He noted the concessions the UAW agreed to in 2008 to help the automakers survive dire financial problems. This time, he said, union members negotiated for themselves but also won raises for nonunion workers in the South who would have received nothing without the UAW.
Persons: Shawn Fain, , Fain, Stellantis, Tesla, hasn't, , , ” Fain, Elon Musk, ” Musk, Ford, Jim Farley, haven't, He'd Organizations: DETROIT, , United Auto Workers, U.S, Toyota, Associated Press, UAW, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, General Motors, Ford, SpaceX, Detroit, EV, South, GM Locations: Detroit, Mexico, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Canada, U.S
United Auto Workers members rally outside Stellantis' Ram 1500 plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, after the union called a strike at the plant on Oct. 23, 2023. DETROIT – United Auto Workers members at Chrysler owner Stellantis have ratified a new labor contract following a historically contentious round of bargaining between the union and company, according to preliminary results posted Friday by the union. UAW members with Ford Motor are on pace to also ratify their agreement, but are continuing to vote Friday. The Stellantis deal received notable objection at the automaker's Jeep plants in Toledo, Ohio, with 55% of workers there opposing the deal. The contract ratifications come weeks after the automakers and the union reached tentative deals, ending roughly six weeks of targeted strikes by the UAW.
Persons: Stellantis, they've, ratifications Organizations: United Auto Workers, DETROIT – United Auto Workers, Chrysler, Detroit automakers, General Motors, UAW, GM, Ford, Stellantis Locations: Sterling Heights , Michigan, DETROIT, Illinois, Toledo , Ohio
Members of the United Auto Workers union picket outside the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan, on Sept. 26, 2023. DETROIT — Union members at Ford Motor approved a tentative agreement Friday, concluding contentious contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers. According to the UAW's vote tracker, which must still be finalized, the Ford deal was supported by 68.2% of the nearly 35,000 autoworkers at Ford who voted. Local UAW chapters representing every Ford plant voted in favor of the pact aside from a small parts facility in Florida and the automaker's massive Kentucky Truck Plant, as of early Friday afternoon. The contract ratifications come weeks after the automakers and union reached tentative deals, ending about six weeks of targeted strikes by the UAW.
Persons: Ford, ratifications, Shawn Fain Organizations: United Auto Workers, Plant, DETROIT — Union, Ford Motor, Detroit, UAW, Ford, General Motors, Local UAW, Dearborn, Stellantis, GM Locations: Michigan, Wayne , Michigan, Florida, Plant
Atsushi Osaki, President and CEO at Subaru, speaks during the press day preview of the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLOS ANGELES, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Subaru (7270.T) will raise the wages of its U.S. plant workers in light of recent labor deals reached by the Detroit Three automakers and United Auto Workers (UAW), the Japanese automaker's CEO, Atsushi Osaki, told Reuters on Thursday. Non-union automakers that have raised wages for their U.S. plant workers after the UAW deals include Japan's Toyota (7203.T) and Honda (7267.T), and South Korea's Hyundai (005380.KS). UAW President Shawn Fain has said "UAW" stands for "U are welcome" in response to the rising wages at the non-union plants. Reporting by Abhirup Roy in Los Angeles; Writing by Ben Klayman; Editing by Chris Reese, Andrea Ricci and William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Atsushi Osaki, David Swanson, Osaki, Joe Biden, Shawn Fain, Abhirup Roy, Ben Klayman, Chris Reese, Andrea Ricci, William Mallard Organizations: Subaru, Los Angeles Auto, REUTERS, Detroit Three, United Auto Workers, UAW, Reuters, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Los, Detroit, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles , California, U.S, Lafayette , Indiana, Los Angeles, South
Service centers - facilities that play a crucial role in supplying manufacturing companies nearly finished steel products - had paused purchases ahead of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union's coordinated strike against the Detroit automakers. However, many of them were soon forced to place large orders as stocks ran low and operations resumed at the carmakers. Reuters Graphics Reuters GraphicsThe automotive segment makes up about 25% of the total U.S. sheet demand, with about 65% of that attributable to the Big Three Detroit automakers in any given year, CRU data showed. Nucor Corp (NUE.N) has raised HRC prices to $950/st while U.S. Steel (X.N) recently announced a $100/st price increase, without specifying a final rate. Meanwhile, automakers stare at higher costs for a key raw material if prices extend their upward trajectory for longer.
Persons: union's, Ryan McKinley, Morgan, Philip Gibbs, Gordon Lee Johnson, Ananta Agarwal, Nathan Gomes, Arpan Varghese, Sriraj Organizations: Detroit Three, CRU Group . Service, United Auto Workers, UAW, Detroit, CRU, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Big Three Detroit, Cleveland Cliffs, HRC, Nucor Corp, U.S . Steel, KeyBanc, GLJ Research, Thomson Locations: Bengaluru
The GM logo is seen on the facade of the General Motors headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., March 16, 2021. The UAW's GM vote tracking site currently shows approval of the contract leading by a 52% to 48% margin with about 22,150 workers having cast votes out of about 46,000 UAW-represented GM workers. That total does not include Arlington, which has about 5,000 UAW members, the most of any GM plant. Workers at other GM plants have voted against the deal, including 60% of workers at its Fort Wayne, Indiana truck plant, 53% at its Wentzville, Missouri plant, and 58% of workers at GM's Lansing Grand River plant. Currently, about 66% of Ford workers that have voted are in favor of the UAW deal; about 79% of Stellantis workers have so far voted in favor, according to UAW figures.
Persons: Rebecca Cook, Shawn Fain, Tesla, David Shepardson Organizations: General Motors, REUTERS, United Auto Workers, Detroit automakers, UAW, GM, Ford, Detroit, GM's, Capitol, Thomson Locations: Detroit , Michigan, U.S, Arlington , Texas, Arlington, Fort Wayne , Indiana, , Missouri, GM's Lansing Grand, Lockport , New York, Michigan
GM-UAW deal in jeopardy as voting goes down to the wire
  + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
United Auto Workers (UAW) members strike at a General Motors assembly plant that builds the U.S. automaker's full-size sport utility vehicles, in another expansion of the strike in Arlington, Texas, October 24, 2023. DETROIT – Voting is going down to the wire on a tentative deal between the United Auto Workers and General Motors after roughly six weeks of labor strikes. A majority of UAW members at several major GM plants have voted against the pact, in most cases with a result of between 55% and 60% against. As of Wednesday morning, the UAW had not updated its vote tracker for GM to reflect several plants that voted against the deal. If the GM deal is voted down, UAW President Shawn Fain and other union leaders will need to decide how to proceed and secure a better deal for GM's union workers.
Persons: It's, Mack Trucks, Shawn Fain, Fain, Stellantis, Joe Biden Organizations: United Auto Workers, UAW, General Motors, DETROIT, Detroit automakers, Ford Motor, workforces, GM, Buick, Chevrolet, Workers, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, U.S Locations: Arlington , Texas, Michigan, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana
DETROIT (AP) — Voting on a tentative contract agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union that ended a six-week strike against the company appears too close to call after the latest tallies at several GM factories were announced Wednesday. However a factory in Arlington, Texas, with about 5,000 workers voted more than 60% to approve the deal in tallies announced Wednesday. In most cases the vote tallies ranged from 55% to around 60% against the contract. But in Arlington, production workers voted 60.4% in favor and nearly 65% of skilled trades workers approved the deal, making the tally tight. The union's vote tracker shows that 79.7% voted in favor with many large factories yet to finish.
Persons: hasn't, General Motors, Tony Totty, , Organizations: DETROIT, General Motors, United Auto Workers, General, Local, GM, UAW, Detroit Locations: Arlington , Texas, Fort Wayne , Indiana, Wentzville , Missouri, Lansing Delta Township, Lansing Grand River, Michigan, Toledo , Ohio, Arlington, Ford, Toledo, Detroit
New York CNN —The United Automobile Workers’ won big wage and benefit gains in tentative contract agreements with Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. Now, non-union companies are rushing to give their non-unionized workers raises, too. Toyota said it’s raising wages by more than 9%, and Honda announced 11% wage hikes beginning next year. While the auto companies didn’t directly attribute their raises to the UAW, the UAW has said it will be targeting non-union factories in the wake of its big wins. UAW President Shawn Fain already encouraged non-union autoworkers to join the UAW, and Fain has called the non-union wage increases the “UAW bump.” The UAW hopes its new contracts with Detroit automakers will inspire other workers to unionize.
Persons: ” Hyundai, , A.J, Jacobs, Shawn Fain, autoworkers, Fain, ” Fain, Tesla, Thomas Kochan Organizations: New, New York CNN, United Automobile Workers ’, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, UAW, Labor, East Carolina University, Foreign, Detroit, Subaru, Volvo, BMW, Mercedes, MIT Sloan School of Management Locations: New York, Alabama, Georgia, United States,
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
Workers at Chrysler-owner Stellantis are still in early voting but have so far largely backed the contract. GM's Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee on Monday became the most recent major facility to vote against the contract, with 67.5% of UAW members rejecting it. Reasons behind the disapproval vary, according to industry experts and UAW members who spoke with CNBC. GM has had 52% of workers voting so far in support of ratification. He said these benefits remain a target for future bargaining when the tentative deals, if ratified, expire on April 30, 2028.
Persons: Jim Vondruska, they've, Stellantis, They're, There's, Shawn Fain, Brian Keller, Ford, Fain, we'd, Keller, Ray Curry, Timothy Orner, it's, Orner, China Jones, Wheaton Organizations: UAW, Getty, DETROIT, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Ford Motor, Motors, Workers, Chrysler, Ford, CNBC, GM, U.S, Louisville Assembly Plant, Worker Institute, Cornell University Locations: Chicago , Illinois, Hill, Tennessee, GM's Flint , Michigan, Kentucky, Stellantis, Toledo, China, Louisville
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.
Persons: Honda, Shawn Fain's, Fain, ’ ”, Harry Katz, it’s, “ There’s, ” Katz, “ They’ve, , Katz, ” Jose Munoz, Toyota’s, haven’t Organizations: Hyundai, Honda, Toyota, United Auto Workers, Detroit, UAW, Labor, “ UAW, General Motors, Ford, Cornell University Locations: Montgomery , Alabama, Savannah , Georgia
U.S. President Joe Biden puts on a t-shirt of the UAW Local 1268 during a United Auto Workers (UAW) union members meeting, in Belvidere, Illinois, U.S., November 9, 2023. DETROIT – President Joe Biden said Thursday that all autoworkers deserve contracts like the ones recently won by the United Auto Workers from General Motors , Ford Motor and Chrysler-parent Stellantis . Biden, wearing a red UAW T-shirt given to him by a local union leader, said the deals won by UAW negotiators are "game changers" that set a "new standard" for blue-collar workers. "I'm a little selfish, I want this type of contract for all autoworkers," Biden said during a visit with UAW President Shawn Fain in Belvidere, Illinois. "I told my team, 'Make Stellantis know Belvidere is a priority,' so I got on the phone and let him know personally I thought it was a priority," Biden said.
Persons: Joe Biden, Stellantis, Biden, Shawn Fain, Mark Stewart Organizations: UAW, United Auto Workers, DETROIT, General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler, Stellantis North Locations: Belvidere , Illinois, U.S, Stellantis North America, Belvidere
The Trade Desk shares plunged about 30% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the ad-tech company issued fourth-quarter revenue guidance that fell well short of analysts' estimates. A Trade Desk spokesperson told CNBC that guidance came "in slightly below consensus, largely because the transitory cautiousness from advertisers in certain verticals, such as U.S. auto and media/entertainment due to the strikes." The United Auto Workers launched targeted strikes at select facilities against the Detroit automakers beginning Sept. 15, and then expanded the stoppages. Trade Desk said third-quarter sales jumped 25% from $493 million a year earlier. Net income increased to $39 million, or 8 cents a share, from $16 million, or 3 cents, a year earlier.
Persons: Jeff Green, Green, Susan Li Organizations: LSEG, CNBC, United Auto Workers, Detroit, UAW, General Motors, Ford Motor, Guild of America, Trade, Meta, Comcast, Cisco Systems Locations: Israel
Selling more hybrid and electric trucks and improving the fuel efficiency of Ram combustion models is critical to Chrysler parent Stellantis. A Hemi V-8 will still be offered in Ram heavy-duty trucks. The company has not disclosed future production plans for light-duty Ram Classic trucks, which are based on previous generation Ram designs. Stellantis has previously said it will sell an all-electric Ram pickup called the Ram Rev starting in late 2024. The all-electric Ram REV has a 168 kWh battery pack in the base model that costs thousands more.
Persons: Steve Marcus, Ram, Ford, Stellantis, Tim Kuniskis, Joe White, Matthew Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights DETROIT, American, Chrysler, Detroit, Silverado, General Motors, GM, Ford, GMC, Thomson Locations: Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, Detroit, Sierras
Ford envisions at least three new electric vehicles that will preserve jobs at several factories. Those and other closely held production plans by Detroit's automakers have emerged in details of the tentative contract agreements that ended the six-week strikes by the United Auto Workers union. The UAW's success in gaining commitments from the companies to build new electric vehicles at several factories represented a particular achievement. The automakers have all embraced the transition to electric vehicles as a large-scale and long-term commitment. And not all the companies’ production plans under the contract, of course, involve electric vehicles.
Persons: , Biden, What's, Ford, Stellantis, ___ Veiga Organizations: DETROIT, Ford, General Motors, Detroit's automakers, United Auto Workers, Workers, EVs, EV, Dodge, Jeep, Cherokee, UAW, Kentucky, Plant, Expedition, Lincoln Navigator, Lincoln, Ohio Assembly Plant, Hill Assembly, Honda, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, Fairfax Assembly Plant, GM, Detroit automakers, Toyota Tacoma Locations: Belvidere , Illinois, Toledo, Warren , Michigan, Sterling Heights , Michigan, Detroit, Dodge Durango, Rouge, Dearborn , Michigan, Louisville, Cleveland, Rock , Michigan, Hill, Hill Assembly Plant, Tennessee, Orion Township , Michigan, Fairfax, Kansas City , Kansas, Lansing , Michigan, Los Angeles
The United Auto Workers union said it reached a tentative deal with General Motors on Monday, more than six weeks after workers went on strike. The company was the last of the three Detroit automakers to reach a new tentative labor deal. Photo: Rebecca Cook/ReutersUnited Auto Workers leaders bargained for months and called a historic strike before clinching tentative agreements with Detroit’s automakers. UAW members at local chapters across the country begin voting as soon as this week on the labor pacts with Ford Motor , General Motors and Chrysler parent Stellantis . The proposed contracts, which include a 25% wage hike and a return of cost-of-living adjustments, increase pay more than several contracts over the past two decades combined.
Persons: Rebecca Cook Organizations: United Auto Workers, General Motors, Detroit, Reuters United Auto Workers, Detroit’s, UAW, Ford Motor, Chrysler
Photo: Allison Joyce/Bloomberg NewsEmployers pulled back on hiring in October while handing out smaller annual raises, analysts said, which would be indications the labor market is slowly losing momentum. Economists estimate average hourly earnings rose 4% in October from the previous year, down from 4.2% in September. On a month-to-month basis, they see wage growth ticking up slightly. Easing hiring and wage growth could be a sign that the economy is starting to slow after a red-hot summer. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pointed to the cooling labor market as one reason the central bank might not need to raise rates further.
Persons: Allison Joyce, aren’t, Jerome Powell Organizations: Bloomberg News Employers, Wall, Detroit, The Labor Department Locations: U.S
The Big Number: $42.60
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Marie Solis | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Reporting on the Business news of the weekMarie Solis Reporting on the Business news of the weekIn its tentative agreements with the Big Three Detroit automakers, the United Automobile Workers union won big wage gains: By the end of the contract, the top rate for Ford production workers would increase to $42.60 an hour. Here’s how they got there →
Persons: Marie Solis Organizations: Business, Big Three Detroit automakers, United Automobile Workers, Ford
John J. Kim | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesDETROIT – United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain wants to expand the union's battle from the Detroit automakers to Tesla , Toyota Motor and other non-unionized automakers operating in the U.S. The UAW has previously failed to organize foreign-based automakers in the U.S. The UAW has previously discussed organizing Tesla's Fremont plant in California with little to no traction in those efforts. "Workers at Tesla, Toyota, Honda, and others are not the enemy — they're the UAW members of the future," Fain said. UAW President Shawn Fain marches with UAW members through downtown Detroit after a rally in support of United Auto Workers members as they strike the Big Three auto makers on September 15, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan.
Persons: Shawn Fain, John J, Kim, We've, Fain, Stellantis, we've, Ford, Bill Ford, Toyota Fain, Bill Pugliano, Tesla, Elon Musk, Musk, Tom Williams Organizations: United Auto Workers, UAW, Tribune, Service, Getty, DETROIT, Detroit, Tesla, Toyota Motor, U.S, General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Nissan, GM, Ford, American, . ", Toyota, Honda, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, CNBC, Cq, Inc Locations: Chicago, U.S, Fremont, California, Kentucky, Detroit, Detroit , Michigan, Fremont , California
The government’s October jobs report is expected to show Friday that companies and government agencies added 184,000 jobs, a solid showing, though down sharply from a blockbuster 336,000 gain in September. The Fed scrutinizes the monthly job data to assess whether employers are still hiring and raising pay aggressively as a result of labor shortages. The Fed's policymakers are trying to calibrate their key interest rate to simultaneously cool inflation, support job growth and ward off a recession. At the same time, inflationary pressures have been easing as the Fed has sharply raised borrowing costs. In the meantime, despite long-standing predictions by economists that the Fed's ever-higher interest rates would trigger a recession, the U.S. economy, the world’s largest, remains sturdy.
Persons: ’ ’, Nancy Vanden Houten, ’ Vanden Houten, Vanden Houten, Jerome Powell Organizations: WASHINGTON, , Federal Reserve, Oxford Economics, Federal, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Wage, Labor Department Locations: U.S, COVID
The October jobs report showed a cooling labor market in the U.S., with many sectors showing minimal or negative growth as the economy added a relatively meager 150,000 jobs overall. If private education was included in that category, as some economists choose to do, there would have 89,000 jobs added in that group. "It's usually a bad thing when job growth is led by the public service, but in this case it is long overdue. The private sector jobs recovery was much stronger and much faster than that of the public sector," said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. Information shed 9,000 jobs, while transportation and warehousing lost more than 12,000 jobs.
Persons: Julia Pollak, Pollak Organizations: of Labor Statistics, ZipRecruiter, Manufacturing, BLS, United Auto Workers, Detroit Locations: U.S
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