UPDATE 10/30/2023: General Motors has reportedly come to a tentative agreement to end the six-week-old strike by the United Auto Workers. Stellantis previously reached an agreement with the UAW on October 28, and Ford came to terms on October 25. Bloomberg News and other outlets are reporting that GM has agreed to a 25 percent raise for hourly workers, better job security, and other terms demanded by the union. This is a developing story that we will continue to update.
UPDATE 10/25/2023: The UAW and Ford have reportedly reached a tentative deal to bring the strike to an end against that company. Bloomberg News is reporting this evening that the new contract with Ford would include a pay raise of 25 percent for hourly workers. It will still need to be voted on and approved by the union members, and the other automakers are not involved in this tentative agreement. Although there has been no official announcement, the Detroit News reported that workers on the picket line at Ford’s Wayne, Michigan, assembly plant were sent home by union representatives at 8 p.m. tonight. We will continue to update this breaking story.
The UAW has expanded its ongoing strike to two large assembly plants that build some of General Motors’ and Stellantis’s most profitable vehicles. Workers walked out of the Arlington, Texas, plant that builds GM’s full-size SUVs including the Chevy Tahoe and Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade; this follows an expansion of the strike to Stellantis’ Sterling Heights, Michigan, facility that builds the Ram 1500 full-size pickup truck.
The UAW said that 5000 workers from the GM Arlington plant are now on strike, along with 6800 workers from the Stellantis Sterling Heights plant. The union says that GM’s current offer does not adequately reward workers for their contributions to the company’s profits, while claiming that Stellantis’ offer lags behind GM and Ford and is the “worst proposal on the table” in terms of wage progression and other financial concerns.
In a statement, General Motors responded by saying that, “The current offer is the most significant that GM has ever proposed to the UAW.” Stellantis, meanwhile, has reacted by pulling out of several major auto shows and events, including the upcoming Los Angeles auto show, SEMA aftermarket show, and CES technology show. The automaker cited growing costs due to the strike as the reason for these cancellations.
This is a developing story and we will continue to update.
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Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Car and Driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.