General Motors Co. has put a new counter offer to the United Auto Workers on the table, the automaker said Thursday, as the union signaled plans to make a new strike announcement on Friday.þþÿWe can confirm that we provided a counter offer to the UAW's most recent proposal — our sixth since the start of negotiations,ÿ GM spokesperson David Barnas said in a statement. ÿWe believe we have a compelling offer that would reward our team members and allow GM to succeed and thrive into the future. We continue to stand ready and willing to negotiate in good faith 24/7 to reach an agreement.ÿþþThe company did not detail its latest proposal. News of the offer being presented comes as the UAW on Thursday said it planned to have another ÿstand up announcementÿ at 2 p.m. Friday. For the past few weeks, UAW President Shawn Fain has been announcing expansions of the union's auto strike strike, in its 21st day Thursday, during Facebook Live events on Fridays.þþThe union's targeted strike of all three Detroit automakers began with walkouts at GM's Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri, Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, and the Stellantis NV Jeep plant in Toledo on Sept. 15. It has since expanded to 38 GM and Stellantis parts distribution centers across the country, and most recently to Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant and GM's Lansing Delta Township plant.þþThe UAW has been using a strike strategy in which leaders call on more workers to join the strike if sufficient progress hasn't been made at the bargaining table, a tactic the union has said enables greater flexibility. GM is the only one of the three automakers that has not been spared in expansions of the strike.
Source: detroitnews.com
