UAW seeks double-digit pay hikes in Detroit Three auto contract talks

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said connected Tuesday the national was seeking ambitious payment increases successful declaration talks with the Detroit Three automakers, including double-digit wage rises and defined-benefit pensions for each workers.

The UAW presented its economical demands to Chrysler-parent Stellantis on Tuesday and volition marque presentations to General Motors (GM) Wednesday and Ford Thursday up of the Sept. 14 expiration of the existent four-year contracts, Fain said.

They see proposing to marque each impermanent workers astatine the U.S. automakers permanent, placing caller strict limits connected the usage of impermanent workers and expanding paid clip off.

Fain besides wants increases successful pension benefits for existent retirees and to guarantee each workers get defined-benefit pensions.

The national leader, successful Facebook Live remarks, called the demands "the astir audacious and ambitious database of proposals they've seen successful decades."

Fain said the CEOs of the Detroit Three saw their wage emergence by 40% connected mean implicit the past 4 years.

He singled retired GM CEO Mary Barra, who received $29 cardinal of compensation successful 2022, and said it would instrumentality an introduction level idiosyncratic astatine a GM associated task artillery works 16 years to gain arsenic overmuch arsenic she made successful a week.

Fain listed galore demands, including restoring retiree wellness attraction benefits and outgo of surviving adjustments. He besides said the UAW was proposing to person the close to onslaught implicit works closures and to destruct the two-tier wage strategy nether which caller hires gain 25% oregon much little than seasoned employees.

He noted the Teamsters precocious won an extremity to two-tiered wages successful a caller declaration with UPS. "It's incorrect to marque immoderate idiosyncratic a 2nd class-worker. We can't let it immoderate longer," Fain said of the request for the aforesaid astatine the Detroit Three.

Stellantis said it had a "very productive meeting" with Fain and the bargaining committee and would reappraisal the national requests to recognize however they aligned with institution proposals and wherever communal crushed could beryllium found.

"We are not seeking a concessionary agreement," Stellantis said.

GM said it would reappraisal the demands erstwhile they were received from the UAW connected Wednesday.

Ford said it looked "forward to moving with the UAW connected originative solutions during this clip erstwhile our dramatically changing manufacture needs a skilled and competitory workforce much than ever."

Fain besides said the Detroit Three request to wage amended wages for workers astatine artillery associated task plants and praised Democratic senators last week for urging the companies to see those workers nether the maestro agreements.