According to a report in the Detroit News, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union says, the latest offer from Stellantis to the union includes raising wages for workers 19.5% and switching salaried workers to an hourly payment system.
According to the report, the offer from Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler and Jeep, would include consolidating after-sales parts plants and increasing the number of supplemental workers available to the automaker.
On Wednesday, UAW President Shawn Fain had said that Stellantis had originally proposed a 17.5% pay increase for the union’s workers.
Rich Boyer, the Vice President of the union was critical of the proposal at a rally Friday in Detroit, calling it “concessionary” and saying it was the result of concerns over the transition to the electrification of the company’s automobiles, according to the report.
In the first simultaneous strike against all of the Detroit Three automakers, which began on Friday, production was halted at three plants responsible for producing the Ford Bronco, the Jeep Wrangler, and the Chevrolet Colorado, as well as other popular models.
The union, representing 146,000 auto workers in the United States, has been seeking pay raises of 40% through September of 2027 as well as significant improvements in benefits, in what have been called an “audacious” set of demands.
So far, it seems the automakers and the union are far from an agreement. Ford and GM have announced layoffs at two plants affected by the strikes, with Ford temporarily laying off 600 employees at the Michigan assembly plant in Wayne, and Ford laying off about 2,000 employees at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas City, Kansas, where the Cadillac XT4 SUV and the Chevrolet Malibu sedan are built.