WASHINGTON: As many as 7,000 workers of the biggest US automobile workers’ union on Friday joined a major protest against the top three Detroit vehicle manufacturers, Western media reported.
United Auto Workers’ (UAW) head Shawn Fain asked workers at Ford and General Motors plants in Michigan and Chicago to join the first-ever joint protest in a push for higher payments and other incentives.
US Autoworkers Protest Expands with 7,000 More Joining
In a message via social media, he said, “I am calling on GM’s Lansing Delta Township and Ford’s Chicago assembly plant to stand up and go out on strike”.
The UAW has demanded a 40 percent pay increase over the next 4-year contract, while the three firms have been offering raises of about 20 percent.
Earlier, US President Biden visited and addressed autoworkers’ protest via a megaphone and expressed his solidarity with them. President Biden conveyed to the autoworkers that the “Big Three” automakers were “doing incredibly well, and guess what? You should also be doing very well too.”
The US President received cheers from the protest when he said, “You deserve the major raise you need and other incentives.”
