Representatives from GM and UAW have been meeting for contract negotiations since July. GM workers’ contracts expired at midnight on Saturday with no agreement reached.
UAW Vice President Terry Dittes: “We are standing up for fair wages, we are standing up for affordable quality health care, we are standing up for our share of the profits. We are standing up for job security for our members and their families.”
GM released a statement Sunday morning saying it offered the union more than $7 billion in investments, including the creation of 5,400 jobs and increased base wages and benefits.
“We have negotiated in good faith and with a sense of urgency. Our goal remains to build a strong future for our employees and our business.”
GM moves striking UAW members to COBRA healthcare coverage [article]
On Tuesday, GM moved all striking union members to COBRA health insurance coverage.
COBRA stands for "Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act." It is available under a federal law that may allow you to temporarily keep health coverage after your employment ends, you lose coverage as a dependent of the covered employee, or another qualifying event.
A record number of US workers went on strike in 2018 [article]
Public school teachers were behind the year’s largest walkouts.
Teachers in Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia protested cuts to education funding.
West Virginia and Oklahoma ranked 48th and 49th, respectively, for average teacher salary in the US.
Marriott employees in four states refused to work until the company agreed to give them a raise and increase their benefits, in the largest hotel strike in US history.
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