{"id":118990,"date":"2023-09-29T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118990"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:45:00","slug":"alabama-auto-workers-strike-for-livable-wages-as-uaw-prepares-to-escalate-strike-against-big-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=118990","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alabama Auto Workers Strike for Livable Wages as\u00a0UAW\u00a0Prepares to Escalate Strike Against \u201cBig 3\u201d&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/9\/22\/headlines\/alabama_auto_workers_strike_for_livable_wages_as_uaw_prepares_to_escalate_strike_against_big_3\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/9\/22\/headlines\/alabama_auto_workers_strike_for_livable_wages_as_uaw_prepares_to_escalate_strike_against_big_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DemocracyNow!<\/a>: &#8220;In labor news, the United Auto Workers union says it is escalating its \u201cstand up\u201d strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers today unless significant progress is made at the bargaining table.\u00a0UAW\u00a0President Shawn Fain will announce the auto plants that will join workers on the picket line at GM, Ford and Stellantis. Amid soaring profits and\u00a0CEO\u00a0compensation, workers are demanding better wages, an end to tiered pay, cost-of-living adjustments, a return to defined benefit pensions and a 32-hour workweek. Separately,\u00a0UAW\u00a0workers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have launched a strike at their plant, which produces parts for Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Tammy Slayton<\/strong>: \u201cWe want better wages because of inflation right now. The wages that we have is not going to \u2014 is not meeting our needs. And plus, the benefit package they\u2019re offering us is too high. We can\u2019t afford it.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DemocracyNow!: &#8220;In labor news, the United Auto Workers union says it is escalating its \u201cstand up\u201d strike against the Big Three U.S. automakers today unless significant progress is made at the bargaining table.\u00a0UAW\u00a0President Shawn Fain will announce the auto plants that will join workers on the picket line at GM, Ford and Stellantis. Amid soaring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118991,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118990\/revisions\/118991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}