A 25 percent wage gain, movement on EV plants and a big issue potentially off President Joe Biden’s plate.
If the tentative agreements reached in recent days between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers cross the finish line, it will mark a turning point in a year of labor unrest.
Though the final product would fall short of some of the the union’s most ambitious initial demands over the summer, including a 40 percent wage increase and 32-hour workweek, the UAW maintains the deals with Detroit’s car makers will be life-changing for members who made economic sacrifices during the Great Recession, as well as for an old-school union that’s sought what it sees as a just industry transition to electric vehicles.
GM workers for its joint venture battery company, Ultium Cells, would be included in the union’s master agreement under the agreement reached Monday, the UAW said. Workers at GM Subsystems LLC, a company subsidiary that wasn’t previously included in the master agreement, would also be added, according to the union.
There are several factors unique to the UAW and the Big Three that could make the tactics difficult to apply elsewhere, even in other heavily unionized sectors. For instance, there are not many other industries where a union could play three large competitors off one another simultaneously, and not all businesses’ operations are as highly interconnected as auto plants — where a stoppage at one can quickly upend work at several others, multiplying the pain.
“Today’s historic agreement is yet another piece of good economic news showing something I’ve always believed,” Biden said Monday. “Worker power, worker power is critical to building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, and so is economic growth.”
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