DETROIT – Progress has been made in the UAW strike. An agreement between GM and the UAW to include EV battery manufacturing in it’s next contract. Talks with Ford are still in the works.
“Significant progress” in the UAW’s negotiations with Detroit’s Big Three automakers this week, especially with GM, which has been lagging behind in bargaining in recent weeks, according to union president Shawn Fain. In a Friday update addressing union members, Fain said that the UAW was preparing to announce a strike at GM’s Arlington Assembly plant in Texas — the company’s “largest money maker” — when the carmaker came forward and agreed to include EV manufacturing in the contract.”
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Shawn Fain said that GM’s agreement to intertwine EV production with the UAW changes the “future of the union and the industry.”
At Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne workers on the picket line told Local 4 on Wednesday night that they are hopeful about the new offer, but they think they will be there for a while.
