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49,800 strikers. The 2023 United Auto Workers strike was a labor strike involving automobile workers in the labor union United Auto Workers (UAW) and the three unionized automakers in the United States— Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Stellantis. These three automakers' factories combined employ about 145,000 UAW members and produce ...
1945–1946 General Motors strike. From November 21, 1945, to March 13, 1946 (113 days), CIO 's United Automobile Workers (UAW), organized "320,000 hourly workers" to form a nationwide strike against General Motors, workers used the tactic of the sit down strike. [1] It was "the longest strike against a major manufacturer" that the UAW had yet ...
That strike ended in February 1937 after Michigan's governor Frank Murphy played the role of mediator, negotiating recognition of the UAW by General Motors. The next month, auto workers at Chrysler won recognition of the UAW as their representative in a sit-down strike. By mid-1937 the new union claimed 150,000 members and was spreading through ...
The United Auto Workers' strike is getting bigger. The UAW's targeted strikes against General Motors, Stellantis and Ford began after the union's contract with the companies expired at midnight on ...
The ongoing strike is the first-ever simultaneous labor action against General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler parent Stellantis after the UAW's contracts expired more than a week ago. The ...
Only two weeks have passed since the UAW called a strike on Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, but the action has already had significant effect. Beyond the non-stop international media ...
The contract between the UAW and General Motors expired September 14, and the strike began at 11:59 p.m. on September 15, 2019. A two-day difference between contract expiration and the beginning of a strike is unusually short, [4] but likely motivated by the prolonged negotiations between management and the union. The strike involved 48,000 GM ...
United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for 7,000 more employees of Ford and General Motors to go on strike at noon ET Friday. He said union members at Ford’s Chicago assembly plant and ...