Negotiations between GM and UAW resume Monday morning

DETROIT (AP) (16/09/19) – Negotiations between General Motors and United Auto Workers were due to resume Monday morning.

GM workers at Flint were among the 49,000 workers who went on strike early Monday morning.

The event closed 33 manufacturing plants in nine states and 22 coin distribution warehouses. It was the first UAW national strike since two days of walkout in 2007.

The union said it was concerned about issues such as wages, plant closures, profit sharing and health care.

In Flint, workers demonstrated outside each entrance to the GM manufacturing complex in Flint on Monday morning. They wore green signs "UAW On Strike" and maintained a spirit of optimism.

Union members said they wanted GM to share some of the wealth accumulated over the past few years and give a discount to its employees. This includes salary increases, better health care and greater job security.

They hoped that the strike could be resolved quickly so that workers could get back to work and continue to build heavy-duty trucks, the much-needed Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.

In a statement, GM announced in a statement that it had made a firm offer to the UAW, including higher wages and investments in factories worth $ 7 billion, likely to create hundreds of new jobs.

Negotiations were to begin at 10 am in Detroit.

A senior United Auto Workers official told General Motors that if the company had submitted its latest offer earlier, the union may not have called off the strike, according to the Associated Press.

The letter from the Vice President of the UAW, Terry Dittes, GM's chief negotiator indicates that the company has waited until the offer is submitted two hours before the expiry of the contract, Friday night. He said that it would have been possible to reach an agreement and avoid a strike if the company had moved sooner.