DETROIT (Great Lakes News) – More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union are on the picket line after contract talks with General Motors broke down early Monday. Union members walked out of factories at 33 plants nationwide. Twenty-two parts warehouses are also standing in solidarity with their fellow workers. Union officials say the strike is a last resort after sticking points like health care and fair wages kept stalling talks. GM officials said the company offered the union higher wages and $7 billion worth of factory investments tied to hundreds of new jobs. Both sides will return to the bargaining table Monday at 10 a.m. to continue hammering out a deal for a four-year contract.
Transportation
GM Workers on Strike
49,000 GM workers hit the picket lines early Monday after failing to reach a deal with the automaker.
Flint resident Jashanti Walker, who has been a first shift team leader in the body shop for two years, demonstrates with more than a dozen other General Motors employees outside of the Flint Assembly Plant on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, in Flint, Mich. The United Auto Workers union says its contract negotiations with GM have broken down and its members will go on strike just before midnight on Sunday. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)
Leave a Comment
COMMENTS POLICY: We have no tolerance for messages of violence, racism, vulgarity, obscenity or other such discourteous behavior. Thank you for contributing to a respectful and useful online dialogue.