While strike authorization votes are a common bargaining tool in the US auto sector and other industries, the tension surrounding this year’s contract talks in Detroit is new.
The United Auto Workers union on Friday said members voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike at the Detroit Three automakers if agreement is not reached before the current four-year contract expires on Sept. 14.
Fain reiterated that the union did not plan to extend the deadline to get a new labor contract. “The deadline is Sept. 14. We have a lot of options that we are looking at but extension on the contract is not one of them.” “We’re fed up,” Fain said on Friday, listing a series of demands. “We’ve sat back for decades while these companies continue to just take and take and take from us.”Analysts estimate there is more than a 50% chance of a strike.Fain has outlined an ambitious set of demands, including an end to the tiered wage system that pays new hires less than veterans, reinstating cost-of-living adjustments and restoring defined-benefit pension plans that the automakers ended years ago for new hires.
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