A week after General Motors informed union leaders they would not cover the costs of healthcare for striking workers, the company has reversed course and agreed to resume the payments.
General Motors has reversed course and agreed to resume paying health insurance costs for striking workers, as union sources tell ABC News Friday that a deal is not likely to be reached before the week is up.
In a letter sharing the update that health coverage was back, UAW vice president Terry Dittes called GM's actions"another attempt to toy with our lives and the lives of our families, they say, GM health care will be back on." Union leaders have argued that GM workers deserved a bigger slice of the company's profits, which they say have totaled $35 billion in North America over the last three years. Union members are calling for fair wages, saying for every $1 a GM employee made, CEO Mary Barra made $281.
For Keondris Howell, an assembly line worker at a GM plant in Flint, Michigan, he is striking because as a temp he said there “has not been a pathway from coming in as a child to becoming a full time employee” and as a temp, he doesn’t “get any benefits.”
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