United Auto Workers members and supporters picket outside a General Motors facility in Langhorne, Pa., on Sept. 22. The United Auto Workers union expanded its strike to a giant General Motors SUV factory in Arlington, Tex., just after the company told investors Tuesday morning that the nearly six-week-long work stoppage was costing it $200 million a week.
UAW President Shawn Fain said the union was hitting the Texas factory because GM’s latest offer to workers “fails to reward UAW members for the profits they’ve generated.” GM, like Ford and Stellantis, is offering full-time workers a 23 percent wage increase over a 4½-year contract. But Fain said GM’s offer lags behind Ford on other matters, including 401 contributions and cost-of-living adjustments to wages.
“It is clear that GM can afford a record contract and do more to repair the harm done by years of falling real wages and declining standards across the Big Three,” Fain said in a statement.