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In a surprise this morning, the 5,000 workers at General Motors' Arlington Assembly plant—tasked with assembling GM cars like the Chevy Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade—joined the ongoing UAW strike. There are now 45,000 UAW workers on the picket lines, including workers at each of the Big Three's most profitable plants.

As the UAW helpfully puts why they hit this plant today:

Despite having made $10 billion in profits in the past nine months, breaking revenue records for another consecutive quarter, and beating Wall Street expectations, GM’s latest offer fails to reward UAW members for the profits they’ve generated. GM’s offer lags behind Ford, with the company proposing a two-tier wage progression, the weakest 401(k) contribution offer on the table, a deficient COLA and other shortcomings. On the heels of their previous quarter, which set “a post-bankruptcy record” in terms of revenue, it is clear that GM can afford a record contract and do more to repair the harm done by years of falling real wages and declining standards across the Big Three.

No doubt it also helps that General Motors reported third-quarter earnings of $3.5 billion despite the ongoing strike.


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