The United Auto Workers union is on strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the first time in its history that it has struck all three of the nation's unionized automakers at the same time.
The strike came after the union made ambitious demands in wages, benefits and job protections for its members. With all three automakers reporting record or near-record profits, the union was trying to recapture many benefits they had been forced to give up more than a decade ago when the companies were cash-starved and on the brink of bankruptcy.
They are GM's Wentzville Missouri, which has 3,600 UAW members on its staff; Ford's Michigan Truck plant in Warren, Michigan, which will have 3,300 strikers; and Stellantis' Toledo Assembly complex in Ohio, where 5,800 will be on strike."The UAW has informed GM that they are on strike at Wentzville Assembly in Missouri as of 11:59 pm.
Many auto industry observers had expected the union to target plants that supplied parts to multiple plants at a time. That way all of the three companies' 25 assembly plants could have been starved of the parts they needed to operate and production could have ground to a halt with only a relative handful of plants on strike, perhaps as few as two per company.
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