GM and Stellantis just laid off more than 2,000 additional workers because of the UAW’s strike

General Motors and Stellantis stated they’ve laid off additional workers because of penalties associated to the United Auto Workers strike.

GM stated in a press release Wednesday that it has halted manufacturing at its meeting plant in Fairfax, Kansas, because of a “scarcity of essential stampings” that may have been equipped by its manufacturing unit in Wentzville, Missouri, the place workers went on strike final week. About 2,000 workers are affected.

Earlier Wednesday, Stellantis stated it’s laying off about 370 staff at three components factories in Ohio and Indiana instantly on account of “storage constraints,” additionally associated to the strike. The crops make components for Jeep automobiles constructed at the automaker’s Toledo Assembly Complex, the place workers are additionally on strike.

UAW-represented workers walked out of the Wentzville and Toledo assembly plants, in addition to a Ford Motor manufacturing unit in Wayne, Michigan, close to Detroit, on Sep. 15, after the three automakers failed to succeed in a deal on a brand new contract with the union.

GM’s Fairfax Assembly plant builds the Chevrolet Malibu sedan and Cadillac XT4 crossover. GM stated that because of the strike, the 2,000 workers laid off from Fairfax won’t be eligible for the supplemental unemployment advantages that its laid-off staff would usually obtain.

“We have stated repeatedly that no one wins in a strike,” GM stated in a press release. “What occurred to our Fairfax staff members is a transparent and instant demonstration of that reality. We will proceed to cut price in good religion with the union to succeed in an settlement as shortly as potential.”

Nearly 13,000 GM, Ford and Stellantis workers are on strike at the Wentzville, Toledo and Wayne crops. UAW President Shawn Fain stated the union would announce more strikes Friday until there may be “severe progress” in negotiations.