代表近150，000名汽车工人的工会发起了一场罢工罢工周五早间对阵美国三大汽车制造商——通用汽车、福特和Stellantis。
美国汽车工人联合会(United Auto Workers，简称UAW)和汽车制造商未能在工会设定的最后期限(美国东部时间周四晚上11点59分)前达成合同协议。在截止日期前不到两个小时，UAW主席肖恩·费恩宣布，如果临时协议不能及时达成，工会成员将在工厂罢工。截至周五午夜，这一数字达到了约12，700名工会工人，其中包括密苏里州温茨维尔通用汽车公司的工人;俄亥俄州托莱多的Stellantis以及福特的密歇根州韦恩工厂。
工会正在进行所谓的“站立式”罢工，不是所有的工会成员都同时罢工。
罢工宣布后不久，费恩给UAW的电子邮件列表发了一条信息。
“几分钟前，福特、通用和Stellantis的数千名UAW成员走了出来，标志着站起来罢工的开始，”他写道。
“这场战斗是我们这一代人的决定性时刻。不仅仅是三巨头，而是整个工人阶级，”他继续说道，“我们将为自己挺身而出。我们会为我们的家庭挺身而出。我们将为我们的社区挺身而出。”
随着罢工的开始，Stellantis的发言人发表了一份声明，表达了公司对未能达成协议的失望。
“我们对UAW领导层拒绝以负责任的方式达成符合我们员工、员工家人和客户最佳利益的公平协议感到极其失望。我们立即将公司置于应急模式，并将采取所有适当的结构性决策来保护我们的北美业务和公司。
周四早些时候，UAW和公司在关键要求上仍存在很大分歧，如增加工资和每周工作时间。
联邦需要在新合同的四年期限内，工资增加了46%，每周工作32小时，工资为40小时。
通用汽车和福特周四提出建议，在协议有效期内向工人支付20%的工资;Stellantis的最新提议包括总加薪17.5%。这三家公司的提议都保留了每周40小时的工作时间。
在罢工临近的周四晚上的一份声明中，福特汽车公司表示，他们周四晚上收到的UAW的反提案，“与工会8月3日提交的最初要求相比，没有什么变化。”
“工会明确表示，除非我们同意其不可持续的条款，否则它计划在东部时间晚上11点59分停工，”该公司在声明中说。“福特真诚地讨价还价，努力避免罢工，罢工可能会对我们的业务和经济产生广泛的影响。”
该汽车制造商表示，在转型时期，它“仍然绝对致力于达成一项协议，奖励“员工”并保护福特投资未来的能力”。
UAW launches strike against Big 3 automakers
A union representing nearly 150,000 autoworkers launched astrikeearly Friday morning against the Big 3 U.S. automakers -- General Motors, Ford and Stellantis.
The United Auto Workers, or UAW, and the car manufacturers failed to reach a contract agreement before a deadline set by the union for Thursday at 11:59 p.m. ET. Less than two hours before the deadline, UAW president Shawn Fain announced the plants where union members would strike if a tentative agreement wasn't reached in time. By midnight Friday, that amounted to approximately 12,700 union workers, including ones at GM in Wentzville, Missouri; Stellantis in Toledo, Ohio; and Ford’s Wayne, Michigan plant.
The union is doing what’s called a “stand-up” strike, where not all union members strike at once.
Shortly after the strike was announced, Fain sent a message to UAW’s email list.
“A few minutes ago, thousands of UAW members at Ford, GM, and Stellantis walked out, marking the beginning of the Stand Up Strike,” his note read.
"This fight is our generation’s defining moment. Not just at the Big Three, but across the entire working class,” he continued, adding, "We will stand up for ourselves. We will stand up for our families. We will stand up for our communities."
As the strike began, a Stellantis spokesperson released a statement expressing the company's disappointment in not reaching an agreement.
"We are extremely disappointed by the UAW leadership's refusal to engage in a responsible manner to reach a fair agreement in the best interest of our employees, their families and our customers. We immediately put the Company in contingency mode and will take all the appropriate structural decisions to protect our North American operations and the Company.
Earlier in the day on Thursday, the UAW and the companies remained far apart on key demands, such as wage increases and the length of the workweek.
The uniondemandeda 46% pay increase combined over the four-year duration of a new contract, as well as a 32-hour workweek at 40-hour pay.
General Motors and Ford put forward proposals on Thursday that offer workers a 20% pay over the life of the agreement; the latest offer from Stellantis includes a total 17.5% pay increase. The offers from all three of the companies preserved a 40-hour workweek.
In a statement Thursday night as the strike loomed, the Ford Motor Company said that the UAW’s counterproposal, which they received Thursday evening, "showed little movement from the union’s initial demands submitted Aug. 3.”
"The union made clear that unless we agreed to its unsustainable terms, it plans a work stoppage at 11:59 p.m. eastern,” the company said in the statement. "Ford has bargained in good faith in an effort to avoid a strike, which could have wide-ranging consequences for our business and the economy.”
The automaker said it "remains absolutely committed to reaching an agreement that rewards” employees "and protects Ford’s ability to invest in the future” during a time of transformation.
