Over the past fifteen years, it’s become harder and harder to make a career in car manufacturing. Newer hires are making significantly less than their coworkers for doing the same job under a tiered labor system. While jobs were cut in the wake of the Great Recession, remaining employees have been forced to work 60 to 70 hours per week and lost their pensions. Job security is on the line in new manufacturing jobs. Meanwhile, the CEOs of Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (Chevy’s parent company), saw an average pay increase of 40 percent in the last four years; autoworker wages increased only 6% in that time, while inflation is up 18%.

Now, as their contract is set to expire, the UAW has been in negotiations with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, making reasonable but necessary demands:

Fair pay increases
Improved benefits and pensions
An end to the tiered wage system
And job security for all workers during the transition to electric vehicles

Auto workers, like every other working person, need wages that keep up with the cost of living. They need to know that their jobs will be there as the industry changes. For an industry that’s made nearly $250 billion in profits over the last ten years, auto workers deserve their fair share for the value they create.

Show your support for auto workers as they take their fight to the next level.

In solidarity,