United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain greets workers at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, to mark the beginning of contract negotiations in Sterling Heights, Michigan, U.S. July 12, 2023. DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union is expanding its strike to a Stellantis plant in Michigan that produces Ram 1500 full-size pickup trucks, dealing another blow to the three major U.S. automakers as negotiations drag on. The work stoppage includes roughly 6,800 workers at Stellantis' Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in suburban Detroit, the union announced Monday after initiating the walkout. The work stoppage at the Sterling Heights plant brings the total number of UAW members on strike with the Detroit automakers to more than 40,000. It marks the first escalation in the union's strike in nearly two weeks and the first new work stoppage at Stellantis in over a month.

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Persons: Shawn Fain, Stellantis, We've, we've, SHAP Organizations: United Auto Workers, Sterling Heights Assembly, DETROIT —, UAW, Detroit Locations: Sterling Heights, Sterling Heights , Michigan, U.S, Michigan, Detroit, Sterling, Stellantis