The United Auto Workers union has widened its strike against General Motors, the lone holdout among the three Detroit automakers, after reaching a tentative contract agreement with Jeep maker Stellantis.
The escalated walkout began Saturday evening at a Spring Hill, Tennessee plant, GM's largest in North America, just hours after the Stellantic deal was reached. Its nearly 4,000 workers join about 18,000 already striking at GM factories in Texas, Michigan and Missouri and Tennessee.
In a statement, UAW President Shawn Fain lamented what he called "GM's unnecessary and irresponsible refusal to come to a fair agreement." The pact includes 25% in general wage increases over the next 4 1/2 years for top assembly plant workers, with 11% coming once the deal is ratified. Workers also will get cost-of-living pay that would bring the raises to a compounded 33%, with top assembly plant workers making more than $42 per hour. At Stellantis, top-scale workers now make around $31 per hour.
Gordon, the University of Michigan professor, said the Stellantis deal "shows that the car companies feel they are at the mercy of the UAW, that the UAW is not going to give any mercy, and that companies will be co-governed by their boards and the UAW." The union also won the right to strike over plant closures at Stellantis, and can strike if the company doesn't meet product and investment commitments, Fain said.
Negotiations between the UAW and Stellantis had intensified Thursday, the day after the Ford deal was announced.
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