UAW Members to Rally Outside Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, Call On Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares to Keep The Promise
On Friday, August 23rd, UAW members will rally outside Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) to call on Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares to honor the union contract and Keep The Promise to maintain product and investment commitments in Belvidere, Illinois and across the country.
Tavares is set to visit SHAP on Friday and has refused to meet with local union leadership.
“We want to make sure Carlos Tavares is listening to the people who make the product that makes this company run,” said UAW Local 1700 President Mike Spencer. “We intend to enforce our national agreement so that this company keeps its commitments, and we intend to make our voices heard.”
WHAT: Rally to Make Stellantis Keep The Promise
WHERE: West side of Van Dyke Avenue, south of 16 ½ Mile Road, Sterling Heights, Michigan
WHEN: Friday, August 23rd, 1-2:30pm
**UAW members are participating in an informational rally to demand Stellantis keep the promise made to autoworkers. We will not be picketing or striking, this is not a work stoppage. Attendees will not block traffic or driveways. Workers must work their shifts as scheduled.**
On Monday, UAW locals representing tens of thousands of Stellantis workers filed grievances with the company over their failure to Keep the Promise made in contract negotiations in 2023. Once the grievance procedure is exhausted under the national contract, the union may authorize a strike.
For more information on the fight to make Stellantis Keep The Promise, visit UAW.org/KeepThePromise.
