United Auto Workers union President Shawn Fain said on Friday there is 'no excuse' for Detroit's automakers to set up electric vehicle operations and ventures that are not unionized.
As he has before, Fain said the UAW wants to eliminate the two-tier wage system under which new hires earn as much as 25% less than veterans. The UAW will push to restore pay improvements tied to the cost of living and retiree benefits cut during the 2008-2009 Great Recession, he said.had no comment in reply to Fain's comments about Belvidere. The company has said the plant has been idled but not permanently shut. The current UAW-Stellantis contract prohibits permanent plant closures.
Fain said workers at joint venture battery plants should earn higher wages than production workers at older Detroit Three factories. Proposals by Ultium, the GM and LG Energy Solutions joint venture, to pay starting wages of $16.50 an hour to workers at an Ohio plant are unacceptable, he said. The 11,000 workers that will be hired by Ford for its Blue Oval City electric vehicle manufacturing complex in Tennessee should belong to the UAW, Fain said.
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