CHICAGO: The president of the United Auto Workers and different labor leaders headlined a rally Saturday in Chicago to preserve union members’ help for a strike towards Detroit automakers that’s now in its fourth week.
UAW President Shawn Fain, utilizing language that has develop into acquainted over the previous month, portrayed the strike a pivotal second for organized labor and a part of a struggle pitting working individuals towards “the billionaire class and corporate greed.”
Fain supplied no new particulars on negotiations or whether or not talks continued on Saturday. A spokesman for General Motors stated talks had been persevering with however with out information to report. A spokeswoman for Stellantis, which owns the Jeep, Ram and Dodge manufacturers, stated there was nothing to replace Saturday. Ford didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The union claimed a breakthrough on Friday, when GM agreed to put staff at new electrical automobile battery vegetation underneath the UAW’s nationwide contract. On Friday evening, Ford repeated its earlier assertion that the vegetation have not even been constructed, and when they’re, staff will resolve whether or not to be a part of the union.
The strike started September 15 at three meeting vegetation, one operated by every firm, and has since expanded to GM and Stellantis components facilities and one other Ford plant and one other GM one. The UAW didn’t announce new targets on Friday, citing progress in talks.
The UAW is in search of pay raises of 36% over 4 years and different advantages. The union says Ford has supplied wage hikes of 23% over 4 years, with GM and Stellantis at about 20%.
Fain was joined at Saturday’s rally by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union, the Association of Flight Attendants and KMU, the largest commerce union in the Philippines.
UAW President Shawn Fain, utilizing language that has develop into acquainted over the previous month, portrayed the strike a pivotal second for organized labor and a part of a struggle pitting working individuals towards “the billionaire class and corporate greed.”
Fain supplied no new particulars on negotiations or whether or not talks continued on Saturday. A spokesman for General Motors stated talks had been persevering with however with out information to report. A spokeswoman for Stellantis, which owns the Jeep, Ram and Dodge manufacturers, stated there was nothing to replace Saturday. Ford didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The union claimed a breakthrough on Friday, when GM agreed to put staff at new electrical automobile battery vegetation underneath the UAW’s nationwide contract. On Friday evening, Ford repeated its earlier assertion that the vegetation have not even been constructed, and when they’re, staff will resolve whether or not to be a part of the union.
The strike started September 15 at three meeting vegetation, one operated by every firm, and has since expanded to GM and Stellantis components facilities and one other Ford plant and one other GM one. The UAW didn’t announce new targets on Friday, citing progress in talks.
The UAW is in search of pay raises of 36% over 4 years and different advantages. The union says Ford has supplied wage hikes of 23% over 4 years, with GM and Stellantis at about 20%.
Fain was joined at Saturday’s rally by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union, the Association of Flight Attendants and KMU, the largest commerce union in the Philippines.
