The United Auto Workers union is expanding its weeklong strike to additional workplaces owned by General Motors and Stellantis, while sparing Ford, which it said had significantly improved its offer to workers.
Union president Shawn Fain on Friday morning said the strike would spread to 38 parts distribution centres across nine states in the US.
Currently strikers are picketing three auto assembly plants, accounting for roughly 13,000 of the UAW’s 146,000 members at the Detroit carmakers. While Ford escaped the latest escalation, workers at its assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan will stay on strike, as will workers at GM’s plant in Wentzville, Missouri and Stellantis’ plant in Toledo, Ohio.