United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders criticized a GM joint venture battery plant for paying workers less than others.
UAW President Shawn Fain chairs the 2023 Special Elections Collective Bargaining Convention in Detroit, Michigan, March 27, 2023.United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Thursday criticized ajoint venture battery plant for paying workers much less than assembly plant employees even though it benefits from hefty U.S. government tax credits.
"That is to say the least going in absolutely the wrong direction," Sanders said in a video posted Thursday after meeting with Fain in Washington. "The government is putting a lot of money into transitioning our economy to a non-fossil fuel economy... We want to see workers get a fair shake, not just the CEOs of the companies."
"It is absolutely not acceptable," said Sanders, a former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont independent who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.GM closed its Lordstown Assembly plant in March 2019. It opened with partner LG Energy Solution the Ultium battery manufacturing plant in August 2022 in nearby Warren, Ohio. The pair are building two other JV battery plants in Michigan and Tennessee.
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