The UAW Strike Just Keeps Expanding
This morning, the United Auto Workers added GM’s largest plant to its strike, just one day after calling on workers at Stellantis’s most profitable plant to walk out. The UAW is turning up the pressure, with 45,000 autoworkers now on strike.
A UAW autoworker on a picket line outside the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on October 23, 2023. (Emily Elconin / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A few minutes past 9 a.m. on Monday morning, United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain called Local 1700, roughly sixty-eight hundred of whose members work at Stellantis’s Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
“When we looked at the numbers, Stellantis has the least money on the table right now at the Big Three,” he told the leadership of the local, which has for years been a stronghold of militancy and reform efforts within the union. “At 10 a.m., we’re asking you to take your workers out on strike.”
“We were waiting for you to tell us so, ten o’clock it is,” replied the voice on the other end of the line.
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