Thousands of workers in American automobile companies went on strike.
According to Al-Mayadeen, after the failure of negotiations between the labor union and the American automobile companies to reach a 4-year work agreement, thousands of workers working in the assembly plants of the 3 largest American automobile companies stopped working.
“General Motors”, “Ford Motor” and “Stellantis” are 3 major American car companies that have seen a large number of their workers strike as a result of the failure of these negotiations. The factories whose workers have stopped working have been busy producing cars with very high profits.
The number of workers who went on strike reached 12.7 thousand people, among them 5.8 thousand workers from “Stellantis” company, 3.6 thousand workers from “General Motors” company, and 3.3 thousand workers from They are “Ford Motor” company. At the same time, the number of members of the union of workers of American automobile companies who work in these 3 companies reaches 146 thousand people.
Negotiations between the workers’ union and these automobile companies were conducted with the aim of reaching a 4-year work agreement, but there was no result, and the tension in the negotiations between the two sides in the past weeks, with discussions on proposals regarding wage increases, reductions in living costs and working weeks. Shorter, it had increased.
The estimates of the economic institute “Anderson Economic Group” last month indicated that if the workers of these automobile companies strike, a loss of 10 billion dollars will be brought to the American economy in just 10 days.
