Workers at an Ohio plant supplying batteries to General Motors, Ford and Stellantis are heading back to work this week, ending a 41-day strike. However, more labor unrest hovers over the industry.
UAW President Sean Fain, recently elected himself, proclaimed he intends to align the auto union’s fight for new contracts at GM, Ford and Stellantis this fall with the Teamsters at UPS to build what he describes “working-class” power as part of a wider effort to reverse the decline of unions and to improve the wages and working conditions of workers throughout the economy.
Fain also said all workers deserve more respect and better working conditions, including work schedules that value their time.