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It isn’t just UAW members who are watching the expanding strikes at GM, Ford and Stellantis plants. Nonunion autoworkers at rival companies are paying attention, too.
The United Auto Workers union expanded its strike last week, bringing the total number of striking auto workers to about 25,000. And while they’re hoping to reach an agreement with the Big Three that includes better wages, an end to the tiered employment system and shorter work weeks, there’s also another outcome that the UAW is hoping to achieve — convincing non-union auto workers to unionize, too.