The United Auto Workers expanded its ongoing strike Tuesday to one of General Motors most profitable factories in North America: Arlington Assembly Plant in Texas.
The union ordered about 5,000 members at that plant to walk out and join the so-called Stand Up Strike at 10 a.m. GM builds its highly-profitable Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, Cadillac Escalade and GMC Yukon big SUVs at Arlington.
The move comes on the day that GM reported its third quarter earnings had taken it hit in part due to the strike. GM said the strike so far has had an incremental $600 million hit to its earnings before interest and taxes and moving forward it estimated the impact of the strike to be about $200 million per week based on the facilities impacted as of Sunday.
“Another record quarter, another record year. As we’ve said for months: record profits equal record contracts.” said UAW President Shawn Fain in a statement. “It’s time GM workers, and the whole working class, get their fair share.”
This latest strike expansions comes after the UAW ordered 6,800 members at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights Assembly Plant to join the picket line on Monday.
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Staff reporter Eric D. Lawrence contributed to this report. Contact Jamie L. LaReau: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @jlareauan. Read more on General Motors and sign up for our autos newsletter. Become a subscriber.
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