UAW President Shawn Fain on Sunday said the union and the Detroit 3 remain far apart on contract agreements to end a historic strike, although the two sides were continuing to negotiate.
“Progress is slow,” Fain said on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” “I don’t really want to say we’re closer.”
Fain declined to say when he might announce a second wave of plants to join the strike that is now in its third day.
In a Friday press conference, he said “it could be in a day, it could be in a week.”
Later Sunday morning, on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Fain said the automakers’ most recent offers were insufficient. On Saturday, Stellantis released details of its most recent offer, which matched the 20 percent raises offered by GM and Ford.
“It’s definitely a no-go; we’ve made that very clear to the companies,” Fain said.
On both shows, Fain blasted recent comments by General Motors CEO Mary Barra that a majority of her…