On Sept. 8, Stellantis finally came back with a counterproposal to our core economics demands. It’s a deeply unfair offer. The wage proposal doesn’t make up for inflation, let alone make up for past losses. Click here to see a side-by-side comparison of our demands and their unfair offer.
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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Vice President Rich Boyer, director of the UAW-Stellantis department, is providing bargaining updates on Facebook to members. To see all the updates, go to the UAW-Stellantis bargaining Facebook group here. We are also linking to the posts here at the UAW-Stellantis webpage. Stay tuned for more updates. Update from Vice President Boyer: The Union’s position is “No Concessions.” As we have been reviewing the company’s proposals, it is apparent that they were drafted in an attempt to negatively respond to each of the Union’s demands, after the fact. The proposals presented by the company are nothing more than concessionary ...
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On Facebook Live Today, UAW President Shawn Fain called out Stellantis for breaking their promise in bargaining. Stellantis told the media they “are not seeking a concessionary agreement.” But their proposals include all sorts of concessions. They want to: Add additional tiers Threaten profit-sharing even as the CEO’s pay has jumped 72% Cuts to our existing medical coverage No new product on the table for Belvidere, holding the rest of our jobs and communities hostage to possible plant closures. AND MORE… Download the leaflet we’re passing out at plants to push back against Stellantis’ propaganda.
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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Our UAW-Stellantis National Negotiators officially opened bargaining with the company on Thursday, July 13. But the tone for these negotiations was set the day before when our bargaining team and the union’s top officers headed to the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) to meet directly with rank-and-file members. Instead of kicking off bargaining with a dog and pony show shaking hands with CEOs, we put the member first. UAW President Shawn Fain, Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock, Vice President and UAW-Stellantis Department Director Rich Boyer, and Region 1 Director LaShawn English shook hands with members during shift change at SHAP. We have ...
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I’ve been an employee of this company for 29 years. My roots in this company run back to my Grandpa Fain hiring in at Chrysler back in 1937, the year the UAW first organized Chrysler. Throughout my 29 years, during the best and worst of times, our members have always delivered. Throughout my 29 years with this company, we’ve been called Chrysler, Daimler Chrysler, Cerberus, FCA and now Stellantis. Our members have endured being spun off and sold out repeatedly, but they’ve always delivered. From 2003 forward, this company has closed plants under every agreement. In 2003, under the guise ...
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