On Friday, the United Auto Workers said over 97% of their 150,000 members who work for Detroit Three automakers gave union leaders their approval to call a strike if they cannot reach a tentative contract by a Sept. 14 deadline.
“Our goal is not to strike, our goal is to bargain a good contract for our members. But we prepare for a strike so that we’re ready no matter what happens," UAW President Shawn Fain told members on a broadcast that ran live from the UAW Local 862 near Ford Motor's assembly plant in Kentucky.Fain said that in the talks with General Motors, Ford Motor Co., and Stellantis, management has not yet made counter-proposals to the membership’s demands.
The Environmental Protection Agency this April proposed new rules that could potentially result in two thirds of the new vehicle market shifting to EVs by 2032. UAW members are deeply concerned factories for EV vehicles will not employ the same numbers as the current plants do; they are also concerned that the battery factories supplemented by the U.S. government, many of which received more than a billion dollars per year from the U.S. government, will either be low paying jobs and or non-union shops.
Last week, President Joe Biden issued a statement about the possibility of a strike that urged both to come to an agreement and placed the brakes ever so slightly on his climate change agenda by saying,"I support a fair transition to a clean energy future.”
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