2023-09-29 21:03:00
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The president of the powerful auto workers union, United Auto Workers (UAW), Shawn Fain, called this Friday for 7,000 more workers to join the strike in the sector, which For two weeks he has been demanding salary improvements.
The call concerns two plants, one from Ford in Chicago, Illinois, and another from General Motors in Lansing, Michigan.whose employees will join the 18,600 who have already ceased activities for two weeks in search of salary improvements.
Striking workers received support this week from President Joe Biden, who picketed a General Motors auto parts distribution center in Belleville, suburban Detroit, on Tuesday.
The president considered it legitimate for the union to demand a 40% salary increase for the new four-year collective agreement.
Trump broke his promises to American workers. pic.twitter.com/LsaJh9cNFb
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 27, 2023
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump was in the region on Wednesday and visited an independent parts factory of the manufacturers and outside the orbit of the UAW union.
Trump pointed to Biden as the cause of the conflict over his energy transition policy toward electric vehicles.
The UAW represents nearly 150,000 workers in the American auto industry.
The three affected centers are the Wentzville, Missouri, assembly facility for General Motors; Toledo, Ohio, for Stellantis, and Wayne, Michigan, for Ford.
So far, the three Detroit-based companies have submitted proposals that offered a 20% wage increase over the life of the agreement, but maintained the 40-hour work week.
This It is the first time in history that a strike has been called at the same time in the factories of the three main automobile companies. of the United States.
Under Fain’s leadership, the UAW has taken an aggressive stance in the talks, accusing companies of “corporate greed” and criticizing the salaries of the “Big Three” CEOs of more than $20 million each.
The union is seeking pay increases of 40%, which will match the average CEO raises over the past four years.
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