UAW strike to begin at 3 plants if no deals by midnight

The UAW will strike three Detroit 3 truck assembly plants at midnight — one each at Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Stellantis — if no tentative agreements are reached by the 11:59 p.m. deadline, President Shawn Fain said late Thursday.

The sites in the first round of Fain's planned "stand-up strike" are:

• GM's Wentzville Assembly plant near St. Louis, where it builds the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups and Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans.
• Ford's Michigan Assembly plant west of Detroit, which builds the Bronco and Ranger.
• Stellantis' Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio, which builds the Jeep Gladiator and Wrangler.

The three plants employ about 13,000 hourly workers, or about 9 percent of the UAW's Detroit 3 membership.

Meanwhile, Ford said in a statement that the union responded with a “substantive counterproposal” around 8 p.m. Thursday but that the two sides remained far from a deal.

“Unfortunately, the UAW’s counterproposal tonight showed little movement from the union’s initial demands submitted Aug. 3,” it said in a statement. "The union made clear that unless we agreed to its unsustainable terms, it plans a work stoppage at 11:59 p.m. eastern.”

It said the union’s demands would more than double its current labor costs of roughly $64 per hour.