The ongoing United Auto Workers strike against the Big 3 expanded Friday to a Ford plant in Chicago and a GM plant in Lansing, Michigan, bringing the total of workers on the picket line next week to 25,000.
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The United Auto Workers union is reportedly planning to strike at more Big Three facilities starting on Friday, September 29 if “serious progress” isn’t made in labor negotiations. According to Reuters, UAW President Shawn Fain plans to announce new targets at 10 a.m. on Friday, and workers will then walk out of those…
Even before the United Auto Workers union went on strike on September 15th, UAW President Shawn Fain put the pay and raises of the Big Three CEOs in the limelight. He has alleged (rightly so) that wage gains for the CEOs’ rank-and-file employees have not kept pace.