UAW goes on strike at 3 plants in the United States against the Big 3 

Henry Ford.... "If my workers can't afford to buy my cars, who will.?"

GM has the gall to be disappointed! GM with their known history of Fing their workers over.

I grew up in the Detroit area and I'm shocked that there are only 4.5K workers, that is a tiny fraction of what there used to be.

When they move to Mexico don’t complain 5 weeks of paid vacation

GOOD !!! Don't settle for B.S Contracts .

Sad that the last offer was still insulting. Doesnt even keep up with inflation much less equalize the same pay for the same work.

Give them Hell UAW!!! Jim Farley still cant explain his 40% raise

The GREED of MARY BARRA & FARLEY. Pay the workers a living wage. STAY STRONG UAW, Americans support you.

Corporate greed has to go away power to the little people that make America run 👊

Who can afford a new car?

That’s what happens when the price of beer and cigarettes go up

Haters need to realize 12 cars off the line pay the bills for three shifts the others 1500 cars are all profit so even if they doubled the wages it would cost them 12 more vehicles I think they can afford it

Get ‘em UAW ✊✊✊

Solidarity✊🏾

Meanwhile I’m here working at Tesla. We need the same thing

Support your unions! Cap CEO compensation at 100X their lowest paid employee.

Solidarity ✊🏼

Local 51 support our leadership

Finally… teachers are next!

Ups make more than special forces . Thank you unions

Good. American workers have been losing for 50 years. I haven’t purchased an American made car due to the poor decisions made at the executive level. If the big 3 will adapt and make better cars they wouldn’t have money problems.

Wish we could strike here in Arizona for nurse wages.

We support you !!

I love it. This couldn’t have happened at a worse economic time with credit as tight as it is, student loans starting next month, bankruptcies up 50% yoy, and repos at all time highs. I’m so excited for this recession.

Power to the people!

The cost of labor is way too high for the big three and that includes management! Nothing made by the big 3 even remotely compares to the quality coming out of Toyota!!!

Cub Scout Pack 43 stands with you.. By the way $5 for a gallon of fresh cider helps send a scout to camp

There goes car prices! Their going to get more unaffordable. But the CEO's and managers get there pay raises and bonuses!

I'm sure Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, Subaru etc... are loving this with perfect timing as their lot inventories are finally starting to build. It probably won't boost Honda, Toyota or the premium's much since domestics compete closer to bottom tier makes except for trucks....

SOLIDARITY!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 Local 551 CAP!!!

All support from Mexico, stay strong.

A Tangos on they're going more likely try to vilify the workers them saying they're affecting the economy😂

Is this new contract for all ford assembly locations in America?

Hire scabs. Fire the people who bit the hand that feeds them

Just 3 plants ?

Respect to the workers 🙌👏

Guess they will build their own plants and make their own cars and sell them for what they want so they can make the wages they want. Right?

All working class Americans should be supporting these brave UAW workers!! We are not a proletariat. Fight slave labor!

The big 3 made 21 billion in profits in the first half of 2023. UAW Labor costs which are 5-10% of a vehicle breakdown like this...we'll use a topped out employee making $32 an hour as an example. which WE ALL KNOW not everyone makes that lol 146,000x2080 hours = 303,680,000 hours worked full time for the year. 303,680,000x$32= $9,717,760,000 So the total labor cost of 146k workers at fulltime MAX PAY is not even 10 billion dollars for the entire year! (I know there are some skilled trades and SBU workers who make more but there are groups who make less as well) So what would happen if you gave every single person a 40% wage increase? well let's do the math because that's what intelligent people do lol and for arguments sake let's do it all up front to make it easy numbers wise $9,717,760,000 x 1.4 = $13,604,864,000 for a grand total difference of $3,887,104,000 (for all three companies combined) oh and by the way this is for the entire year of wages!! So to make these numbers more accurate, let's break it down so it's also in line with the first half of 2023. $13,604,864,000 / 2 = $6,802,432,000 or an increase of only $1,943,552,000 So...These MORONS in the media who can't even do basic math are over here saying our companies are going to go bankrupt these companies with our ludicrous proposals and yet here it is people right in front of you the broken down math on a full 40% pay increase if every single worker was making at least $32 an hour assuming tiers are wiped out and everyone was full pay plus the pay increase all up front rather than spread out over 4.5 years of contract. Furthermore let's also breakdown the rest of our benefits for fun, because nothing drives me more nuts than hearing our AVERAGE wages/compensation currently cost the company $64-72 an hour (depending on the source) and the non-union shops only cost their companies $50-55 and Tesla is $45 Healthcare according to Ford cost them 17k per employee, Stellantis tax info says 19k and change. Lets round up to 20k per employee for healthcare or $9.61 an hour. Let's add in the FICA tax for SS and Medicare OF 15.3% / 2 = 7.65% X 32 = $2.45 an hour 401k contributions of 6.4% and $1 an hour = $3.05 an hour Dental, Vision, Disability, Life Insurance are all extremely negligible costs probably only adding up to about $1 an hour but let's be friendly and say $2 an hour. $1,500 bonus yearly (for those who get it) is like 0.72 an hour So what are we at right now? just a hair under $50 an hour....you can't count vacation and sick days etc. because I based the hours formula on full 2080 hours which is 40 hours a week by 52 weeks in a year. So what else is there? profit sharing? overtime? those aren't guarantees and could just as likely be 0 so you can't include those...You have to include things that are guaranteed to show it's an actual yearly cost towards compensation. But hey even if we added in profit sharing of lets say 10k for the year that's only $5 an hour. So we are at $55 an hour for a maxed out employee. NOT AVERAGE...MAXED OUT! I mean...even if I was forgetting a few fringe benefits...after seeing the math do you really think we are missing enough fringe benefits and costs that are as expensive as HEALTHCARE?!?! no way lol AND even if there was, $32 is not the average compensation that's top pay for the vast VAST majority of members. I hate it when you sit around and everyone says we are going to bankrupt these companies or that we are going to cripple them somehow. Nooooo I've done the math and now you've seen it. We would need a lot more than a 40% raise to cripple these companies.

SHUT THE PLANTS DOWN,FIRE ALL WORKERS,AND LET THEM SUFFER LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN AMERICA. OPEN NEW PLANTS OFFER WORKERS $25 HR OR NOTHING ,THEY CAN WORK OR STARVE. THAT WILL STOP THE NONSENCE REAL FAST..

Outright lie that bronco or ranger are our biggest brands. F-150 and transit are the bread winners.

Local 249 is with you!! We will STAND when we are called!!!

Close every plant and tell the union workers they will no longer be needed. He works for 4 months and now he deserves his fair share😂😂😂😂😂. I stand with the Big 3. Crush these unions into dust.

So glad I'm no longer a longhaul driver. I don't have to worry about crossing a picket line. I support this strike anything that hurts Biden is a good thing.

Solidarity with the workers! ✊

Still think Brandonmics is working?

This is ridiculous. Get ready nobody’s gonna be able to afford a Vehicle. It doesn’t even make sense what they’re asking. I was a union man for 33 years. The Union’s have turned to shit.

This is not a strike but a movement

So the UAW strike for more money, less hours, and better benefits along with alot more. What about the workers that live in a state that is "A Right to Work" state that will not be able to take part in this and affected by there decisions. We are on layoffs with no compensations, no way to work, and our suppliers are telling us there is nothing we can do. How do we get a piece of there pie 😢

The BIG 3 do not care about the strikes, it's a good way to reduce dealer inventory and save money in the process. It also paints unions as evil, even though the CEO's are the real problem.

Sorry I can't afford your vehicles now. Priced out many year's ago. Wish you the best. But we will never be able to afford any of your trucks or cars anytime soon. No matter how much you get in concessions. I'm afraid you're already making cars for the well off. And i'm not part of that club. Be well...

Shawn is a leader

Lock them out!!!

Wayne assembly been assembling Mexican, and Chinese made parts for so long now...

Solidarity Forever!

Why not just ask for $500/hr and a 10 hour work week 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄

Why aren't they striking at the truck plants

I'm sure all the labor across the border would love to come over and fill the void. Can they do that? They keep coming over in droves and the democrats like it and let it happen. They should send them up there in bus loads to help you guys out.

Why should Americans who work 40 hour plus weeks support a union 32-hour work week? Union built vehicles are pure junk and too expensive!

So much for everyone striking then, Huh? That's solidarity for you. One plant keeps their job while others get strike pay @$500 per week. I bet the top union brass are still getting their checks.

Wish the local 249 would have went on strike

WOOOHOOOOOOO THIS IS AWESOME

The Big 3 did NOT bargain in good faith. They didn’t do anything till last couple weeks, & not enough then either. 🇺🇸SOLIDAIRTY🇺🇸

There is nothing more eerie than walking through one of these shut down plants. Especially the older ones that have been in operation for a long time... The silence is deafening.

Solidarity

I initially thought UAW and it’s members where just being greedy, but after I found out that MARRY BARRAS the CEO of GM made 29 million in 2022 I have changed my opinion. These hourly workers need a raise especially the lower tier $17 an hour workers. The implications on the economy will be harsh especially at this time, but they will make it up by claiming low inventory and raising prices once again since somehow Americans absorbed the price hikes a few years ago. JUST MY OPINION.

Good Luck and stick it to them!

Hell yes ✊

The government should have let them go bankrupt in 2008. I have never bought a piece of junk built in Detroit and never will. Why should they get a raise, so they can buy more Budweiser? If the unions really cared about justice, they would defend fast-food workers who are the real slaves of our times, not some fat cats making $30 per hour.

More power to them!

Since the price of vehicles is going up so high, why can they be taxed at 3% and give the remainder to the employees instead of the state using every sale as a piggy bank?

👊👊👊!!!

From what I have seen, most of those workers can easily be replaced by a 12 year old. No skill required. Prove me wrong.

Get at it!

Union shouldnt be able to select which plants they strike at, every union member is either striking or not, cutoff all their pay and start replacing workers.

When they strike … it proves that the union leadership has little that they can say or do to help the worker’s situation get better. Jobs go over seas and they get a new gig as a member of a Board somewhere….

Meanwhile more work is moving to non-union plants cause of costs. UAW biting the mouth that feeds them

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Who is buying their American made junk anymore? Quality sucks poor design. I use to be buy domestic vehicles most of my life now you couldn't give me one for free. I want a Toyota or a subaru all day long

Maybe if these people get off medical leave and restrictions and actually come to work to actually work the company can pay more

Fire them all and hire new workers grateful for what they will make in pay

Why isnt the union paying the workers what they are striking for?

Union president is weak he's no Sean o brian

Robots. Just go 100% robots then maybe my shit won't break down constantly.

History is a great teacher. Hostess, Yellow, there will be more. Hello chinese cars.

Well the country is about to loose cause we are striking

Union strong local 249 Kcap is with y'all!!! 🤘💪❤️✊

I guess I will buy more TSLA shares this morning. And maybe some GM & F puts. Short-term and long-term expirations. I saw unions put Mcdonnell Douglas out of business in St. Louis. GM for sure was already struggling. F was doing ok but this could hamstring it. Good thing the USA has a healthy non-union auto company to keep us ok through all of this; Tesla.

I feel for the auto makers, they're gotten so used to operating with the concessions the union has given that they don't know how to operate when the concessions are gone. I remember when the fight for $15/hr was going through the food service industry and everyone was screaming "they're crazy, it can't work". Then came covid and restaurants like taco bell started offering $15/hr to entice people to come to work instead of collect a government (unemployment) check.

Bring on bancruptcy so the fleas can die with the carcass. Toyota and Honda must be thrilled.

They want more, should of thought about that when you were in school. $100,000 to put cars together?

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These dudes are demanding ridiculous things. Regular people are struggling and these dudes want a free payday.

Battery cars are not the exclusive option we have to decarbonize our world. “Hydrogen fuel cell cars, which like electric vehicles also produce zero emissions, have a far higher number of components because the working of a fuel cell engine closely resembles petrol engines. Many of the parts needed can be produced by existing suppliers to the industry. ‘Hydrogen technology means people who make internal combustion engines can still have jobs,’ said Sae Hoon Kim, Hyundai’s director of fuel cell projects. ‘We have 300 major suppliers [for the hydrogen car], and most of them are our conventional vehicle suppliers.’” (Financial Times) Nonetheless, our Department of Energy remains obsessed with battery cars and has made no plans whatsoever to build a hydrogen pipeline to connect our major cities - a threshold requirement recognized 20 years ago by General Motors. Ironically, neither have the oil companies themselves made any such hydrogen pipeline building plans - although hydrogen fits nicely in their existing business model for the delivery of gasoline and diesel. And this is so despite hydrogen promising to be the ultimate lifeline for oil companies when battery cars take hold.

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All theyre going to do make cars more expensive and drive the industry away. 😂😂😂

Hell yes, bring on the automation!!!!!

Most lucrative in 80 yrs what a joke

Hold Fast

First, there will always be Billionaires and Millionaires. Second, I agree that the UAW workers should receive a reasonable increase in wages and benefits but not what they're demanding. Reality check, any increases in wages and benefits that the automakers and UAW Union Reps finally agree upon will be passed on to us, the consumers. The automakers won't absorb one cent of any of it, and nothing will change except the price of a new automobile. And make no mistake, Shawn Fain knows this. Also, Shawn knows that it is Bidenomics that has deflated the value of the UAW wages by over 12 percent since January 2021. One more thing, people comment about corporate greed as if it's a bad thing. Grow up. If it weren't for Corporations and private business of all sizes, the majority of people in this Country, about 86 percent, wouldn't be employed. And that's a fact. One final note. UAW, be careful that you don't destroy the automotive job market like the Union did in Detroit back in the day. You Get It Blanket-heads. PaulA