UAW has set its sights on nonunionized workforces at Tesla and other automakers
Honda Motor Co.’s U.S. unit joined other foreign carmakers in raising their automobile workers’ wages in the wake of historic wins for the United Auto Workers and as the union has vowed to intensify its organizing push.
At an address to UAW members in mid-October, for instance, Fain said that the UAW was “going to organize non-union auto companies like we’ve never organized before.”U.S. auto workers at foreign carmakers such as Honda and Volkswagen AG VOW, -1.12%, which have their major factories in the Southeast, are not unionized. Neither are auto workers at Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.36%, which has car-making factories in California and Texas.
The labor action, which the UAW dubbed a “stand-up strike,” called on select local unions to stand up and walk out. It marked a break from tradition: Going back decades, the UAW would strike at one company at a time, mostly to save its picket-line firepower and strike fund.The new strategy yielded big results, including pay raises of around 25% over the life of the four-year contract plus cost-of-living adjustments, the end of several wage tiers, and better retirement benefits.
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