UAW President Shawn Fain held a Facebook Live on Thursday evening to update our membership on the current state of Big Three negotiations. He addressed a number of issues during the stream, including a response to Ford’s contract proposal. On the criticism that the UAW is demanding too much from the Big Three: “I know that our demands are ambitious, but I’ve told the companies repeatedly, I’m not the reason that members’ expectations are so high. What’s driving members’ expectations are the Big Three’s profits. You cannot make $21 billion in profits in half a year and expect members ...
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Click here for the document above comparing our economic demands with Ford’s unacceptable counterproposal. This is the full document that was shown on yesterday’s Facebook Live with UAW President Shawn Fain. In our “Facts About Ford” section, we’ve also posted slides from that Facebook Live showing Ford’s surging profit for the second quarter of 2023 and the billions of dollars in dividends the company is shoveling to shareholders instead of workers. Down below you can also take a closer look at: Ford’s proposal to have unlimited numbers of temps stuck at wages less than 60 percent of our top rate; and ...
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – UAW President Shawn Fain announced today that the union’s strike authorization vote passed with near universal approval from the 150,000 union workers at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. Final votes are still being tabulated, but the current combined average across the Big Three was 97% in favor of strike authorization. The vote does not guarantee a strike will be called, only that the union has the right to call a strike if the Big Three refuse to reach a fair deal. “Our union’s membership is clearly fed up with living paycheck-to-paycheck while the corporate elite and billionaire ...
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UAW members are fired up and ready to win a historic contract. We’ve been going to contract action trainings at Local halls and Regional offices all across our union.
President Shawn Fain met with UAW members on Facebook Live last night and laid out the Members’ Demands in Big Three bargaining. UAW members are thinking big and the Big Three can afford it. Ford, General Motors and Stellantis made a combined $21 billion in profits in just the first six months of this year. That’s on top of the quarter-trillion dollars in North American profits that the Big Three made over the last decade. “Record profits mean record contracts,” Fain said. In past negotiations, the UAW’s core contract demands have been called the President’s Demands and the union’s president ...
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Your National Negotiators have moved into the Ford World Headquarters building and we began the process of bargaining on July 14th. Every one of the demands that were submitted from our UAW-Ford members were presented in writing and read to the company. The negotiators are now bargaining in our established sub-committees for each specific category of the contract. We have presented your demands in their appropriate application and proposals are now being exchanged in the sub-committees to achieve resolution in order to then bargain the language. Take comfort in knowing that this entire UAW National Negotiating Committee is honored and ...
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Our UAW-Ford National Negotiators officially opened bargaining with the company on Friday, July 14. But the tone for these negotiations was set that Wednesday when our bargaining team and the union’s top officers headed to the Michigan Assembly Plant to meet directly with rank-and-file members. We did not hold a public handshake ceremony with the company this year. Instead, UAW President Shawn Fain, Vice President and UAW-Ford Department Director Chuck Browning, and Region 1A Director Laura Dickerson shook hands with members during shift change at the plant. We have big demands in this year’s negotiations and we’re mobilizing members to ...
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I’d like to start by thanking you for being on time, unlike the company we met with yesterday. I’ve been a UAW member for 29 years. Like Mr. Ford, my roots in this industry run back to the early days when my grandpa hired in at Chrysler in 1937, the year the UAW first organized Chrysler. That job was life-changing for my family. Their generation took pride in, not only being UAW members, but in working for a Big Three company. We all have our own walk with the Big Three and UAW, so what we do here is personal ...
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