The union has said it’s providing the same $500 weekly stipend to those workers as it is to members on strike. union’s strike aren’t eligible for unemployment in Michigan. We’ll see what happens now and on Friday, when they’re likely to announce the next one.” if they’re already shut down from the Canadian operations. It eases the pain for the UAW, because they’re not going to see a strike here in the U.S. “It’ll probably shut down a lot of GM plants, because of the Canadian operations being down. “It’s kind of a mixed blessing,” Wheaton said. GM is assessing how it will affect production of popular products in the United States. The Unifor strike could mean more is to come. The strikes at GM have resulted in about 2,330 workers being laid off at other locations because of parts constraints or having nowhere to send product. The details of that move still haven’t been made public, but it was enough of a concession that the union decided not to send workers in Arlington, Texas, making profit-heavy full-size SUVs on strike. A week later, UAW members at the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave plant in Delta Township outside Lansing, Michigan, went on strike.īut the union spared GM from additional pain last week after the automaker made a last-minute agreement to include joint-venture electric-vehicle battery manufacturing plant workers in its master agreement. Then followed workers across the country at its parts distribution centers. The union initially sent out workers to the picket line at its midsize pickup and commercial van plant in Wentzville, Missouri, outside St. GM has seen the unprecedented simultaneous targeted “stand-up” strike against all three automakers expanded more times against it than the other two. The UAW has 25,300 of its members at the Detroit Three on strike out of a total of 146,000. “There is a lot of cross-border traffic.” “It puts more pressure on GM all across North America to lose its Canadian operations,” said Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School. operations that produce for Oshawa or use parts from St. It increases the pressure on GM to make a deal and get affected North American operations up and running again. The strike in Canada has the potential to affect negotiations with the UAW in the United States. Catharines Powertrain Plant building engines for the Chevrolet Equinox and Corvette, and the Woodstock Parts Distribution Centre in Ontario. as well.įollowing a self-imposed deadline, Unifor shortly after midnight on Tuesday declared the walkouts of 4,300 workers at the Oshawa Assembly Complex making light- and heavy-duty Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks and parts for other vehicles, the St. It was the 26th day of the United Auto Workers’ strike against the Detroit Three automakers when the Canadian autoworkers union began striking General Motors Co.
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