6,800 UAW Workers From Metro Detroit Plant Join Strike: Reports

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI — The United Auto Workers union said 6,800 members at Stellantis NV's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant will walk off the job Monday and join the picket lines, according to multiple reports.

The Sterling Heights plant is Stellantis’ largest plant and is where it builds the popular Ram light-duty pickup trucks.

As of Monday morning, there are now roughly 40,000 United Auto Workers members on strike against Detroit's Big Three: Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Stellantis NV.

So far, the strike has cost the industry $5.5 billion, which includes $579 million in lost wages for workers and $2.6 billion in losses for automakers, according to an economic assessment from East Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group.

The historic UAW strike against Detroit's Big Three began on Sept. 8 after the union's contract expired without a new one in place. It's the first time ever the union launched a strike against all three automakers at the same time.

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