Striking UAW Workers Heading Back To Work In Bucks Co.

FALLS TOWNSHIP, PA —With tentative agreements in place, striking United Auto Workers in Bucks County will be headed back to work, ending a strike that lasted about two months.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman, who joined the picket line for workers here last month, released a statement celebrating the United Auto Workers’ new tentative agreements reached in recent days with Stellantis and General Motors.

If approved by UAW membership along with the Ford agreement, these deals would end the union’s historic strike against the Big 3 automakers.

“Tens of thousands of workers stood up and demanded a share in the massive profits they create. And they won," Fetterman said. "I want to send all of these brave workers and their families my deepest congratulations on their historic victory."

Fetterman and U.S. Senator Bob Casey, both representing Pennsylvania, recently introduced a resolution in the Senate showing solidarity with UAW workers who have been on strike since early last month.

Fetterman and Casey recently joined LU 2177 members striking at a General Motors parts distribution center in Langhorne in separate visits.

“These agreements secured by UAW President Shawn Fain, the negotiating team, and union workers are truly groundbreaking. Many people doubted these workers and their ability to fight and win," Fetterman said. "But they held the line and secured historic agreements, proof that paying these workers what they deserved all along was possible."

Fetterman stood in solidarity with UAW members in Ohio and at the Ford Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, MI, on the very first weekend of the strike as well.

“The brave UAW workers who held the line for over six weeks set an example for working people across the country, that better things are possible when workers stand together and fight. That’s why I was proud to visit UAW picket lines in Michigan and Ohio in addition to Pennsylvania because the fair deals workers are fighting for go beyond state lines."