(Reuters) – The United Auto Workers union asked the employees at Stellantis to accredit a strike, implicating the French-Italian auto manufacturer of damaging its agreement guarantees, UAW President Shawn Fain stated in a letter to the union’s united state phases on Friday.
“We unanimously recommend to the membership that every UAW worker at Stellantis prepare for a fight, and we all get ready to vote YES to authorize a strike at Stellantis,” Fain created in the letter that the UAW cooperated a message on Facebook.
The union’s complaints focus around Stellantis’ item and financial investment dedications made throughout agreement settlements last fall.
“We reviewed the serious violations of our contract and patterns of illegal behavior by Stellantis. The evidence is clear that CEO Carlos Tavares is steering Stellantis on a crash course that will cause our members tremendous harm,” the letter on Friday included.
Stellantis did not promptly react to a Reuters ask for remark. However, Stellantis has actually formerly refuted stopping working to recognize dedications with UAW, with its North America COO Carlos Zarlenga stating the firm “has abided, and will continue to abide, by the agreement the parties reached in 2023.”
Chrysler- moms and dad Stellantis’ North American procedures have actually been battling and has actually brought in objection from customers and employees that have actually said it has actually refrained sufficient to revitalize need.
The major sticking factors for the UAW focus on hold-ups of a prepared multibillion-dollar financial investment right into a brand-new battery plant and manufacturing facility in Belvidere, Illinois and feasible strategies by Stellantis to relocate manufacturing of the Dodge Durango SUV out of the United States.
Fain stated previously this month that numerous of its union neighborhood phases were preparing for strikes.
Tavares has actually stated he is concentrated on enhancing Stellantis’ efficiency in the united state, and mentioned a desire to close down brand names around the world if they do not earn money.
(Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
