UAW President Shawn Fain called on workers to walk out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis plants across 20 states on Friday afternoon.
MINNEAPOLIS — An expanded strike by the United Auto Workers union is now set to impact plants in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
On Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain called on workers to walk out of 38 General Motors and Stellantis plants in 20 states at noon eastern Friday after the union and carmakers failed to make significant progress in their ongoing contract negotiations. The UAW’s contract expired at midnight on Sept. 14, and workers walked out of a Ford assembly plant near Detroit, a GM factory in Missouri, and a Jeep plant run by Stellantis in Ohio.
The latest strike update primarily impacts GM and Stellantis, who Fain said have rejected all of the union’s job security proposals, profit-sharing proposals and proposals to convert temps.
Locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin included in the strike are:
- GM: Hudson Parts Distribution in Hudson, Wisconsin
- Stellantis: Plymouth, Minnesota
- Stellantis: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Fain said Ford was spared additional strikes because the company has met some of the union’s demands during negotiations over the past week.
Plants that are already in strike will remain on strike. According to the Associated Press, up until Friday, the initial strike involved about 13,000 of the union’s 146,000 members.
Other Stellantis locations included in Friday’s strike…
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