GM stated that the UAW strike in Wentzville, Missouri, and Lansing, Michigan, “continues to have negative ripple effects.” The company is sending home 130 workers in Parma, Ohio, and 34 in Marion, Ohio. Indiana, that “they have no work to do,” a spokesperson for the firm said in an email.
Total, G.M. It has laid off 2,100 workers at five plants in four states, even halting production at its Kansas factory because of the strike.
For its part, ford announced again layoffs affecting 330 employees In Chicago, Illinois and in Lima, Ohio, to whom he already told them not to report to work.
“Our production system is highly interconnected” and that explains that some plants are indirectly affected by the strikehe explained ford in a statement on Monday.
General Motors increased its sales
At the same time, the company reported rising third-quarter sales on Tuesday thanks to robust consumer demand, a result that will be tested by the ongoing strike in the auto sector.
The manufacturer registered a 21% increase in vehicle deliveries compared to the third quarter of 2022, at 674,336 units, welcome news for the company as it faces a workers’ strike demanding better wages alongside ford and Stellantis.
Some analysts point out that GM is the worst positioned of the three companies in the framework of this conflict that affects the entire sector in the United States, due to lower available stocks. The company reported more than 442,000 vehicles available, the highest volume, it noted, since the end of 2020. At the end of 2018, G.M. It had an inventory of 755,000 units.
The four brands under the GM umbrella reported higher sales than in the same quarter of 2022, three of them with double-digit increases. Last year, supply chain problems made sales difficult for manufacturers.
Automotive strike in the US
The UAW launched a strike on September 15 in plants G.M., Ford and Stellantis, Detroit’s “big three,” with a handful of plants paralyzed, although Most of the organization’s 146,000 union members continue their work.
On Friday, the UAW extended the movement for a second time, ordering arrests additional tasks in plants G.M. and ford, but leaving aside Stellantis due to progress in talks.
The three companies – GM, Ford and Stellantis – had temporarily laid off about 3,000 workers who cannot perform tasks due to the strike. The total now stands at 3,500 people.
The strike movement exceeds 25,000 workers called by the UAW.
Source: Ambito
