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Subaru will raise the wages and benefits of its U.S. plant workers in light of the new labor deals finalized by the Detroit Three automakers, the Japanese automaker's CEO Atsushi Osaki told Reuters on Thursday.
The UAW fought hard and strategically to score some of the biggest contract improvements we’ve seen in years during its recent strike against the big three. Now, after weeks of negotiations and tentative deals, there’s doubt about whether the union members will ratify the agreement. The latest blow comes as four GM plants vote no on the new deal.On Tuesday, 68% of the employees at General Motors Spring Hill, TN assembly plant voted against the UAW deal with the automaker.
A key promise of the Green New Deal that makes up a large part of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is that “clean” jobs will replace the dirty ones, working at internal-combustion engine and transmission plants, as well as coal mines and oil rigs. But major automakers, including General Motors and Ford, have already warned that producing battery cells and packs for their shiny new electric vehicles is not as labor-intensive as making the sort of conventional powertrains they’ve been cranking out for 120 years. This has been a major sticking point for the United Auto Workers leading up to its tentative agreements with GM, Ford, and Stellantis. The contracts “would ensure that people who build engines and transmissions today will still earn top union wages making EV batteries and components in the future,” Axios reported.
WASHINGTON — Workers belonging to the United Auto Workers (UAW) at General Motors' Spring Hill plant in Tennessee voted against a proposed contract, even as the union's president said in Washington on Tuesday that the deal remains on track for approval.
South Korean automaker Hyundai has joined Honda and Toyota in raising factory worker wages after the United Auto Workers union reached new contract agreements with Detroit automakers.
BELVIDERE, Illinois — President Joe Biden on Thursday backed the United Auto Workers' efforts to unionize carmakers Tesla and Toyota and asked autoworkers to reject his Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday will meet in Belvidere, Illinois, with the head of the United Auto Workers union, and the two leaders are expected to highlight plans to reopen an auto factory that Stellantis wanted to close.
By Nick EdserBusiness reporter