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October 30, 2023

United Auto Workers Wins Tentative Deal with Stellantis and GM, Following Ford
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The United Auto Workers has reached a tentative deal for a collective
bargaining agreement covering workers at General Motors. Today's deal
follows similar tentative contracts the UAW reached with Stellantis and
Ford in recent days. This is UAW President Shawn Fain.

Shawn Fain: "We called it the stand-up strike as a tribute to the
sit-down strike which built our great union almost 90 years ago. The
sit-down strike showed the incredible power of regular working-class
people to fight for economic justice and win big. After 44 days of
occupying the GM plant in Flint, Michigan, the UAW announced victory. On
day 44 of our stand-up strike, I am honored to announce that our union
is again victorious."

The Stellantis proposal includes reviving an Illinois assembly plant
that had been shuttered since February and cost 1,200 UAW members their
jobs. Some 5,000 jobs will be added to the Stellantis workforce, along
with significant raises and an end to tiered wages. In light of the
success of its strike against the Big 3 U.S. automakers, the UAW said
it's planning to organize workers at nonunion automakers like Toyota,
Honda and Tesla.


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