{"id":1244,"date":"2023-10-30T20:54:33","modified":"2024-09-02T20:31:31","slug":"fetterman-salutes-uaw-tentative-agreements-with-big-3","link":"https:\/\/www.fetterman.senate.gov\/fetterman-salutes-uaw-tentative-agreements-with-big-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Salutes UAW Tentative Agreements with Big 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, DC \u2013<\/b><\/span> Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman on Monday released the following statement celebrating the United Auto Workers\u2019 new tentative agreements reached in recent days with <\/span>Stellantis<\/span> and General Motors. If approved by UAW membership along with the Ford agreement, these deals would end the union\u2019s historic strike against the Big 3 automakers:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud that in addition to the tentative agreement with Ford, the United Auto Workers have also reached deals with GM and <\/span>Stellantis<\/span>. Tens of thousands of workers stood up and demanded a share in the massive profits they create. And they won.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI want to send <\/span>all of<\/span> these brave workers and their families my deepest congratulations on their historic victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese agreements secured by UAW President Shawn Fain, the negotiating team, and union workers are truly groundbreaking. Many people doubted these workers and their ability to fight and win. But they held the line and secured historic agreements, proof that paying these workers what they deserved all along was possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe brave UAW workers who held the line for over six weeks set an example for working people across the country, that better things are possible when workers stand together and fight. That\u2019s why I was proud to visit UAW picket lines in Michigan and Ohio in addition to Pennsylvania, because the fair deals workers are fighting for goes beyond state lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe union way of life is sacred, it built Pennsylvania and it built this country. These UAW workers showed us all how strong organized labor can be when we stand together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Senator Fetterman is a fierce advocate of the union way of life and has been standing in solidarity with UAW members since day 1 of the strike. Fetterman has visited five UAW picket lines in three states over the six weeks of the strike, <\/span>including<\/span><\/a> the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, MI, on the very first weekend of the strike. In that time, he also <\/span>introduced<\/span><\/a> a congressional resolution in solidarity with striking UAW members <\/span>and\u202fpublished\u202fan<\/span><\/a> op-ed in MSNBC about the ongoing strike against the Big 3 and his support for the striking workers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false}}