Big Three Autoworkers Are Getting Ready to Strike As Negotiations Come Down to the Wire
The United Auto Workers’ contract with the Big Three automakers expires tomorrow at midnight. If no agreement is reached, the UAW is ready to strike to recoup concessions made over the past two decades, end tiers, and boost wages.
United Auto Workers members and others gather for a rally after marching in the Detroit Labor Day Parade on September 4, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)
A day before their contract expires at midnight Thursday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) are poised to strike the Big Three automakers — General Motors (GM), Ford, and Stellantis — to recoup concessions made over the past two decades, end tiers, boost wages, and fight for a shorter workweek and other quality-of-life demands.
The auto companies are preparing for a strike, given the UAW’s new fighting spirit, on display in rallies and on the shop floor.
UAW president Shawn Fain was elected in March on a slate backed by the reform movement Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), on a platform of “no corruption, no concessions, no tiers,” ending nearly eighty years of one-party rule in the union.
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