So people are only making $16/hr making cars, and car companies are now charging $40K for a "mid range" car?!

Finally strikes are happening across America. It sucks things came to this, but it’s good that we’re doing it regardless.

This can't be easy for anyone. I was once fired for trying to help form a union. My prayers are withall of you!

As an IBEW member I support these union brothers and sisters for fighting for fair contracts to support there families! In solidarity!

Just a reminder -- social security benefits & Medicare -- *YOU, THE WORKER, PAID FOR IT. IT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS TO RELY ON FOR YOUR RETIREMENT.* 💯💯 *They are NOT "entitlement" programs!* 💯

The Corporations can and WILL Violate the Law. They don't face REAL Consequences.

With the way the automakers haves priced vehicles the last 5 years , I hope the UAW teaches them a lesson.

I was lucky, I hired in with GM Hydramatic div in 1976. Back then once you got your 90 days in you pretty much had a job for life. Best of luck my UAW brothers and sisters. You deserve a better contract than the ones you've had to endure for too long.

Bailed out by the people... To screw the people... STRIKE FOR WHAT IS YOURS,A LIVING WAGE

I am not an auto worker, but I am a UAW member. I could not be more proud to be. Solidarity ✊🏾. A rising tide raises all ships

As a UPS Driver I approve this Message!!💪Stay Strong 💪

Time for a positive change for hard working American families! I stand with the UAW✊️

Rich corporations should be treated like spoiled kids. Don't enable them, encourage them, or give them any ideas.

Still recall a reporter asking a striking John Deere worker how long he could hold out against such a huge, powerful, company. He replied, "One day longer than they can."

I'm a auto shop owner. I own, and work by myself. I stand with you Auto workers. Even being an owner is a pay check to pay check living. Good luck workers. I hope you can get most, if not all

love seeing unions becoming more abundant across america, workers need their fair share

Solidarity with the workers

I am an IBEW Electrician (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), I stand in solidarity with our UAW Brothers and Sisters! Solidarity forever ✊️💯💪⚡️!

Hope they can get what they are fighting for. Back when I worked at GM they were in the beginning stages of implementing the tier system. I left GM in 2006, I was making $28.50 with included about a $1.05 per hour cola. I worked for them about 8 years at 3 different locations.

"There's so much plastic in cars now; you can build one with Legos. " Tom snapped.

I stand with them

We need Universal Healthcare (Medicare For All) since the private sector employers have proven they are incompetent on healthcare.

Wow! This is absolutely shocking to me. Two of my uncles worked at these facilities. They worked 7 days a week their entire lives Because they were addicted to the money they were making. They worked way past retirement age. I am completely disgusted with how they are treating their workers today. This has got to stop. Fully behind you guys and hope that you win.

I hope this works out for UAW. My biggest fear is they move all production outside of the US.

The unfortunate thing is that the executives have so much power and wealth that they can just sit and wait and not come to the table for a very, very long time.

Is this the year of the strikes?! I am so curious as to how this year will be remembered. I support them all ❤️ I hope those greedy bastards pay their people AND THEIR TAXES.

Don’t forget about the little people who supply all the major companies we need a voice and help as well

Good luck from a salaried, degreed engineer who never had COLA, a pension or health care after retirement. My raises over the last 8 years is about 3%. The only way I can improve my salary is to quit and go somewhere else. I get no overtime and consistently put in over 50 hours per week. If it gets ugly, at least I have my education in searching for a job. Hope it works out well for everyone.

All companies, union or not, need to take better care of their employees. We are the ones that keep them in business. The pandemic has long been over along with supply issues, but yet prices have not gone down. We are being milked out of every dime and no wage increases to cover cost of living. People can't go on like this anymore. This is just ridiculous. They are starving their own people.

We NEED a national strike.

This just shows that that the top execs reward themselves for WORKING so hard and the people actually working to build the vehicles get the shaft.

It's great to see some momentum coming back into the labor movement.

Keep fighting! Wife of a Teamster.

I am amazed that cost of living adjustments ever existed in any industry - we need them everywhere, and if anyone can do it, it will be unions! Solidarity!

When I retired from General Motors in 2006 a line worker was making $28 an hour, plus medical, plus pension, plus thirty days of paid vacation, plus paid holidays, including two weeks paid Christmas holidays. I can't believe the workers are making less today than we were nearly twenty years ago. For anyone who thinks anyone can do the work, well there is something to that, BUT nearly half the workers had a body brace of some sort ... neck brace, back brace, wrist brace, etc.. The two tier system has to end. We were considered permanent and full pay at 90 days.

I am a uaw member local 2383 and I wish our union was a strong as you guys in solidarity. UNION PROUD UNION STRONG.

I love the continuing rise of unions and worker's strikes. Build the American left - the actual left, not status quo democrats, and secure a future for working people in america. ✊✊🚩️🚩️

Executive produce increased ? Workers produce everything.

Nothing more beautiful than workers uniting. Stay strong UAW!

Are these people insane? A 46% pay increase? Get real. No one is going to take them seriously after that insane request..there are a million other people lined up to take their jobs

I work for one of the big 3 American auto companies as an engineer, and I'm hoping the UAW wins this one

More of this needs to happen in other industries / sectors! Solidarity with UAW workers from Canada, and all workers everywhere as always.

As a Union member myself im glad to see this, but also why has their pay not increased over the last 10 years, the price of vehicles has tripled

The U.S. needs to stand up for our labor force. We need high tariffs on cars and auto parts made in other countries

Need to do something about these car salesmen too! Straight scamming folks!

More strikes. Let's keep going until every industry is striking.

The future is coming and it does not include individual ownership of cars. Those days are coming to an end. Urban centers of the near future will feature autonomous EV fleets owned by corporate entities and likely subsidized by government like all big industry is. 24/7 access to these fleets will be subscription based, like a person's cell phone plan. This pattern of taking advantage of labor to grow GDP has been going on from the beginning of the U.S. Look into the criminal treatment that occurred with the Appalachia coal miners back in the day. Coal miners were paid in "scrip" rather than legal tender that could only be spent in the company store! Coal allowed the U.S. to industrialize. Countries chew up labor and spit it out and this will never end. If/when current auto workers "win", it will be very short lived, just like it will for UPS workers. The future doesn't include well paid workers in auto making factories or delivery trucks.... those days are gone. The next sector that will fuel growth is fully digital... generative AI. That sector too will, for a time, be very lucrative for workers. Until it fades and gets replaced by the next thing. These cycles are inevitable in a system built on perpetual growth (like cancer).

As much as I paid for my new ford truck. THEY SHOULD BE PAYING THESE PEOPLE MORE. Literally greed Is getting ahold of these big companies.

Shut it down. Completely disregarding how the industry kills public transportation and destoys the environment, $80-90k for a truck that cost $40k a decade ago is bs.

Toyota ( in Kentucky not far from Louisville ford plant) isn't unionised and they work hard to squash unionisation. I hope that the ford workers can get their demands met. I stand in solidarity! ✊🏼

People who have never worked in a factory don't understand the wear and tear on your body. I use to work for New Center Stamping in Detroit. Had to take pain pills daily to survive. Let's not talk about how dangerous these plants are. Workers deserve more money. No doubt and I hope they get it.

This is what I like too see,people standing up with people for people this needs to happen all across America

im very excited for this, even as an anti-car pro-urban infrastructure follower. i wonder how this will overlap with things like strongtowns and city planning as a whole if more power is given to the workers.

I know that it might not be feasible but looking into the striking food workers up here in Canada would be great. This labour movement is happening all over North America

I just quit my job building engines at the factory it’s not worth 16 a hour with 25 cent raise every year.

Local 1102 member here, these guys got my support. Ford treated their prototype car drivers like they were disposable and trash, and I was one of these prototype drivers for the S650, Escape, Corsair, Explorer, and Nautilus. McDonald’s workers had more pay than we did. They can pretty much shove whatever they say up their butt if they ain’t keeping their promise. Keep fighting the good fight.

This is disgusting, how can a country calling itself the leader of the free world allow for such inhumane treatment of people.

Don't you just loveeee how the first person they turned to were their workers. The ones who got them their profits in the first place, and didn't turn instead to the execs at the top who were obviously grossly overpaid and incompetent.

I just got hired for GM a few weeks ago. In Oshawa. All the old people talk about how before the Canadian government bailed them out with billions. How they were making 38 per hour and the sub companies inside GM were making about 30-32 per hour. After gm came back wage is about 23$ per hour for the same job. Sub companies only pay about 20. This union renegotiation will hit them hard i hope because they make to much money for the people making the vehicles to be struggling to afford ANYTHING

I agree for I've been in construction for 28 years and worked on my days off on cars for cars is my passion I had to take a break from construction they continuously in a industry that I also had a passion for but I already had the experience your hiring these people in for less money for your own personal gain .

Starting at 6:50: Man....whoever synced up the music during the editing process did a... *chef's kiss* mwah! Legendary job. It pauses every time the man speaks, and when the man falls silent the music slides back in. Just beautiful, not to mention incredibly impactful. Bravo.

I have faith auto workers will win. Power to the workers.

The UAW usually picks a target company to strike, which sets a pattern for bargaining with the other two. So doubt if all 3 companies will be struck at same time.

The CEO salaries are SHOCKINGLY unjustified 🤦🏻‍♂️

It’s gonna hurt but damn it it’s time to rip the bandaid off and get what we deserve from employers.

RAILROAD WORKERS have a tired pay system and no medical when they retire. THANK YOU BIDEN AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR NOT LETTING THEM STRIKE... YOU SCREWED THEM

As a member of APWU I stand with these workers and their fight

When I hired in, in 06, I was told it would be the last job I’d need. When the following contract rolled around, I list everything; seniority, pay, pension, 401k, health care… everything. By 2012 I was able to get some of it back. It absolutely sucked working next to guys making 2-3x what I did, doing the same thing. Now to make full pay, I have to work an hour and a half from home. I never got my 6 years on seniority back, no pension still, our 401k is tied up in our stock, and even if I can retire I won’t have health care after. All I really want is to be able to retire with some dignity.

Fully support the UAW. Those 2009 conditions are ridiculous in today's economy. My dad worked for Ford for 35 years, retired with pension and healthcare for life. All UAW employees should get that. ✊🏾 power to the workers.

It is honestly SCANDALOUS that these corporations can now decide to declare a 'critical status' and force Workers to work 12h/day 7 days a week!! THAT ALONE should be enough grounds to STRIKE IMMEDIATELY!! 😤😤😤😤 But of course, the current contract allows this... WHICH IS WHY THIS STRIKE IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL!! 😤😤😤😤

How does it compare to all those non union shops in the South?

The funniest part of this story is that the UAW keeps voting for people that are creating the issues they have.

I really hope you guys get it. I’m rooting for all of you. Union’s moving forward.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 the Union is the backbone of this country not political parties

How come UAW never drew up a cap so that upper management wouldn't make as much?

As someone from Michigan this makes me so sad

Solidarity ✊🏻

Go unions!!🎉

I work for 249 Ford for 3 years. Can't wait for this. Been growing my youtube channel on the side incase

The sickening thing is how auto manufacturers are so profit hungry that they discontinued most cars and sedans because of the profit margin in comparison to SUV’s and trucks. Now vehicles are almost un-obtainable to lower class. All that profit goes where? $16 an hour is a slap on the face.

Building union power is so so important for so many reasons. It helps the working class immediately, and on a longer timescale it promotes solidarity which has also been shown to decrease the types of bigotry we've been seeing rising, as workers understand they have more in common with each other than with their bosses, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, etc

So Ford can charge $110,000 for a Truck but the workers are barely making ends meet?

Only $16 hourly making a car???? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

In the airline industry we lost our pension. 40 years with the company and your pension, GONE!

$16 hr is crazy, as a GM shareholder, I agree with the workers, the pay is way too low.

So well said by Shawn Fain: "While Workers have been breaking their back, the Big 3 has been breaking the bank." Give these Workers a FAIR SHARE OF THE PROFITS AND STOP THE CORPORATE GREED!!!! 😤😤😤😤 In solidarity with all Workers ❤️

Us automotive technicians need an increase of wages too! We get to fix everything that comes broken from the factory for warranty pay.

This is an unfortunate reminder of why you never, ever give up a single benefit to capitalists. You *will* have to fight long and hard just to get back to the status quo as hard as we did before to win them in the first place. As always, solidarity with unions and your fellow workers, always.

this is typical the upper crust makes millions off the back of the worker and the workin man can barely get ahead. no one man needs 21million a year off the back of the workin man.

My uncle was a UAW member! I'm excited to see this powerful and respected union fight the good fight!!

I work at Magna and it's worse for us. Magna is the biggest car parts manufacturer in north America. I actually work in one of their subsidiary company that has no union

Can you investigate sedgwick is the company gm uses for workers comp, I got hurt at work and they refuse to approve my claim and there are many workers in the same boat.

Corporations have been focused on their stock prices over everything else fo decades now, and this is the result. CEOs and their boards get huge bonuses and stock shares and don't spread those profits to employees that are actually doing work or engaging customers. I work retail, and I remember the first time we had a meeting and our GM was so proud that our store had made a profit of a million dollars the previous year. All that I could think about was that if this store profitted a million, why am I makeing $9/hr?

To be honest, the auto industry is responsible for many of our social and environmental problems

I saw a Raptor going for $187,000 in CA. I didn't mistype

Solidarity with UAW members and all striking workers nationwide fighting for fair pay and working conditions. Glad to hear President Biden will be joining the picket line.

I'm not an autoworker, just a consumer who has to deal with the end result when I go in to buy a vehicle or have it serviced. That being said the prices have gone so high that I'm not interested in buying anything right now, and I'm taking my cars to an independent shop where the bill is typically 30%-40% less than a dealer's service department charges. FWIW: I consider the whole manufacturer through dealership 'chain' as part of the company, even though the dealers are 'independent' franchisees they still sell a specific brand and have that brands logo on their buildings.

It would be helpful if More Perfect Union would post links to where we could act in solidarity with the UAW.

They do understand Americans are NOT paying $70-$100 k for vehicle’s right ? The dealerships are flooded with new inventory just sitting soon there wont be any jobs for production because no one can afford the price tag .

They need to state that they are only offered 16 per hour more often. The big 3 in the offices are only saying that the union wants a 40% raise. This puts things in perspective.