The United Auto Workers union said Sunday that its members at General Motors will walk out by midnight if the automaker does not meet its demands, setting the stage for the nation’s first auto strike in 12 years.
A union statement suggests the two sides are still very far apart in negotiations for a new contract.
As union officials met in Detroit Sunday morning, the union issued a new strike threat.
“If GM (GM)refuses to give even an inch to help hard-working UAW members and their families then we’ll see them on the picket lines tonight,” said the statement….
The union’s contract with GM had expired at 12:01 a.m. Sunday but the union’s 46,000 members at GM did not walk off the job at 31 GM factories and 21 other facilities across the nation at that time.
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Calling a strike is a deeply difficult decision and always a measure of last resort. This is a fight to win dignity for the 46,000 auto workers who have delivered their bosses record-breaking profits for years.
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Richard Louis Trumka (born July 24, 1949) is an organized labor leader in the United States. He was elected president of the AFL-CIO on September 16, 2009, at the federation’s convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009, and prior to that was President of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to 1995. Trumka was named one of Esquire Magazine’s Americans of the Year in 2011….