The United Auto Workers expanded its ongoing strike Tuesday to include one of General Motors’ most profitable factories in North America: the Arlington Assembly Plant in Texas.
The union ordered about 5,000 members at that plant to leave the plant at 10 a.m. and join what was called the Stand Up Strike. GM builds its highly profitable large SUVs Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, Cadillac Escalade and GMC Yukon in Arlington.
The move comes the same day GM announced that the company’s third-quarter profits were hurt in part because of the strike. GM said the strike had resulted in an additional $600 million in damage to its earnings before interest and taxes so far and estimated the strike’s impact going forward at about $200 million a week based on Sunday’s figures affected facilities.
“Another record quarter, another record year. As we have been saying for months, record profits mean record contracts,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement. “It’s time for GM workers and the entire working class to get their fair share.”
This latest expansion of the strike came after the UAW ordered 6,800 members at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights Assembly Plant to join the strike line on Monday.
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Staff reporter Eric D. Lawrence contributed to this report. Contact Jamie L. LaReau: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @jlareauan. Read more about General Motors and subscribe to our automotive newsletter. Become a subscriber.