If launched, the strike would come as the second in two years, after theUAW last year launched simultaneous strikes against Stellantis, Ford, and General Motors (GM)that lasted a historic six weeks. The re-opening of the Belvidere plant was one of the stipulations enshrined in the contract a...
Chrysler Brakes Neon Production // Belvidere Plant Idle as Noise Fix Is SoughtBILL VLASIC
and a 1984 Chevrolet El Camino, handed down from his grandfather—Fain originally took a job at Chrysler's Kokomo, Indiana, factory in 1994. Becoming a union committee person, he ran against the grain of the union's national leadership, notably opposing givebacks agreed to during the 2007...
When the company told the auto workers union that it woulddelay plans to reopen a factoryand build a new electric vehicle battery plant in Belvidere,Illinois, UAW President Shawn Fain called for Tavares to be fired. The company agreed to the plans in a new contract with t...