The United Auto Workers and Detroit automaker executives exchanged harsh words on Friday, the first day of the union’s unprecedented simultaneous strike against all three of Detroit’s manufacturers.
After the midnight deadline for a new contract passed, workers walked out of a Ford Motor Co. plant in Michigan, a General Motors Co. factory in Missouri and a Stellantis NV plant in Ohio. Picket lines began in the early hours Friday, and a war of words followed.
Earlier, GM Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra told Bloomberg TV that she was “extremely disappointed and frustrated.” Her company’s offer of 20% raises over four years, cost-of-living allowances and increases for existing pensioners, she said, was the best in its 115-year history.Barra gave a series of television interviews Friday morning to make the case that she thought the strike could be over “very quickly.
“But I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the UAW,” he said. Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri used the walkout to bash Biden’s push for more electric vehicle production while backing the workers’ demands for a raise. “I’m pushing 60 now, so it’s really, it’s not easy work when you’re my age,” she said. “It’s hard to walk out, literally.”
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