If a contract agreement isn't reached with General Motors Corp. by midnight Sunday, the UAW announced its nearly 50,000 members will strike.
DETROIT, MI -- If a contract agreement isn't reached with General Motors Corp. by midnight Sunday, the UAW announced its nearly 50,000 GM autoworkers will strike.
Cindy Estrada issued a Saturday-dated letter announcing the deadline to Cathy Clegg, Vice President GMNA Labor Relations at the company's Mound Road Warren location.
The UAW's last contract with the Detroit Three -- GM, Ford and Chrysler -- was reached in 2011 and covered about 137,000 workers. That deal expired Sept. 15.
The some 40,000 UAW members working for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles voted by a 77 percent majority to approve a new, four-year contract last week.
The Fiat contract included an immediate wage increase, larger profit sharing and ratification bonuses.
And it highlights $5.3 billion in investments in U.S. plants, and says a moratorium will be placed on outsourcing. Many workers are leery of seeing their jobs sent to Mexico, after reports that FCA plans to move production of small cars south of the border while also shifting truck and SUV production stateside.
The UAW's agreement with FCA will act as a broad guide for negotiating pending contracts with Ford and GM.