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UAW reaches tentative deal with Stellantis but escalates strike against GM

The Stellantis deal, like an earlier Ford agreement, gives workers 25 percent pay raises. But the UAW expanded its General Motors strike to a Tennessee factory.

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Updated October 28, 2023 at 7:53 p.m. EDT|Published October 28, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. EDT
United Auto Workers members walked off the job at Stellantis's plant in Toledo, among other company sites. (Kurt Steiss/The Blade/AP)
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The United Auto Workers said it reached a tentative agreement with Stellantis to end the union’s strike against the automaker, but it escalated its strike against General Motors after days of marathon talks, walking off the job at a factory in Spring Hill, Tenn.

The Stellantis deal, if ratified by a majority of the automaker’s UAW workers, will give employees a 25 percent raise in base wages over the next 4½ years, the union said Saturday. The deal and a similar agreement with Ford on Wednesday give the UAW its biggest gains in years after a hard-fought campaign by its combative new president, Shawn Fain.