Photo: Jovanny Hernandez ~ USA TODAY NETWORK
DETROIT, Oct. 3, 2023 ~ With the UAW strike against Detroit‘s Big Three automakers nearing the one-month mark, each side is trading blame for the 4,800 layoffs occurring at the companies’ non-striking factories.
Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and Stellantis NV maintain that the layoffs were necessary business moves that largely affected plants charged with creating parts for strike-shuttered assembly lines. The UAW contends that the layoffs were done to pressure the union to accept a lesser deal and that the manufacturers could have afforded to keep those employees on staff.
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 58% of U.S. residents support the UAW strike.
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Oct. 3, 2023 ~ Breana Noble, automotive and business reporter for the Detroit News, talks to Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds about General Motors reaching an agreement with the Canadian auto workers union.
Oct. 3, 2023 ~ Headlight.news contributing editor Paul Eisenstein talks to Chris Alberta about the part electric vehicles play in the negotiations between UAW and the big three Detroit automakers.
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