UAW Strike Widens for GM and Stellantis

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for workers at General Motors and Stellantis distribution facilities to join the strike against the Big Three Automakers in a Facebook Live address today. The strike will not widen at Ford facilities at this time, the UAW says, citing progress in negotiations with the company.

The move comes just a week after the UAW announced a walk-out at GM’s Wentzville Assembly in Missouri, Stellantis’s Toledo Assembly in Ohio and Ford’s Michigan Assembly in Wayne, Mich. The focus on GM and Stellantis distribution facilities underscores UAW’s “Stand Up Strike” method, in which select local union chapters are poised to walk out of their plants as called on for “maximum leverage.”

According to Fain, significant progress has been made in negotiations with Ford, including:

• Rawsonville Components and Sterling Axle employees will now be on the same wage scale as assembly workers.
• Reinstated cost of living allowance (COLA).
• Right to strike over plant closures.
• In the event of an indefinite layoff, income security for up to two years with health care. Applies to all employees with 90 days of service, including temporary workers.
• Enhanced profit-sharing formula that would have resulted in a 13.3% increase for the average employee in payouts last year. Profit sharing extended to temporary employees with at least 90-days employment.
• Immediate conversion of all temporary employees with at least 90-days employment ratification.

“All that represents serious movement on tiers, on cost of living, on pay and on job security, but to be clear, we’re not done at Ford. We still have serious issues to work through. But we do want to recognize that Ford is showing that they’re serious about reaching a deal,” Fain says. 

Similar to Ford, General Motors Components Holdings and Customer Care and Aftersales workers will now be on the same wage scale as assembly workers, according to the UAW. But the union has not made significant progress in other areas, such as COLA, with GM.

All 38 parts distribution facilities at GM and Stellantis were called to strike at noon today. The list includes:

General Motors:

• Pontiac Redistribution—Pontiac, Mich.
• Willow Run Redistribution—Bellville, Mich.
• Ypsilanti Processing Center—Ypsilanti, Mich.
• Davidson Rd. Processing Center—Burton, Mich.
• Flint Processing Center—Swartz Creek, Mich.
• Lansing Redistribution—Lansing, Mich.
• Cincinnati Parts Distribution—Westchester, Ohio
• Denver Parts Distribution—Aurora, Colo.
• Hudson Parts Distribution—Hudson, Wis.
• Chicago Parts Distribution—Bolingbrook, Illinois
• Reno Parts Distribution Center—Reno, Nev.
• Rancho Cucamonga Parts Distribution—Rancho Cucamonga, Cali.
• Fort Worth Parts Distribution—Roanoke, Texas
• Martinsburg Parts Distribution—Martinsburg, W.Va.
• Jackson Parts Distribution—Brandon, Miss.
• Charlotte Parts Distribution—Charlotte, N.C.
• Memphis AC Delco Parts Distribution—Memphis, Tenn.
• Philadelphia Parts Distribution—Lang Horne, Penn.

Stellantis:

• Marysville—Marysville, Mich.
• Centerline Packaging—Center Line, Mich.
• Centerline Warehouse—Center Line, Mich.
• Sherwood—Warren, Mich.
• Warren Parts—Warren, Mich.
• Quality Engineering Center—Auburn Hills, Mich.
• Romulus—Romulus, Mich.
• Cleaveland—Streetsboro, Ohio.
• Milwaukee—Milwaukee, Wis.
• Minneapolis—Plymouth, Minn.
• Denver—Commerce City, Colo.
• Chicago—Naperville, Illinois.
• Los Angeles—Ontario, Calif.
• Portland—Beaverton, Ore.
• Atlanta—Morrow, Ga.
• Winchester— Winchester, Va.
• Orlando—Orlando, Fla.
• Dallas—Carrollton, Texas
• New York—Tappan, N.Y.
• Boston, Mansfield, Mass.