The move will come as the union complains of slow progress in contract talks with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis
The United Auto Workers said it will hold strike authorization votes next week to determine whether the group’s 150,000 workers are ready to walk off the job when their contract expires Sept. 14.
The union expressed frustration with the pace of contract talks with Detroit’s Big Three automakers, saying the negotiations have “yet to progress beyond non-economic issues.”“Whether or not there’s a strike next month is entirely up to the Big Three automakers,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement, referring to General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the parent company of Jeep and Chrysler.
The statement said the UAW recently raised strike pay to $500 per week per member and has over $825 million in its strike fund.“Ford is proud to build more vehicles in America and employ more UAW-represented hourly workers in America than any other automaker,” the company said in a statement."We look forward to working with the UAW on creative solutions during this time when our dramatically changing industry needs a skilled and competitive workforce more than ever.
Stellantis didn’t respond to a request for comment but has previously said it is attempting to balance workers’ concerns with the need to keep the business competitive.Keen to avoid a strike that would clobber an industry that contributes about 3 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, President Biden on MondayAutomakers should “take every possible step” to avoid closing plants and keep jobs in their existing manufacturing communities when they need to retool, Biden said in a statement.
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