“What that should tell you,” Fain said, is that “there’s room to move.” Each time the automakers make an offer, Fain said, they insist it’s the best they can do, only to return days later with a better offer. While Fain said the companies keep touting that they’ve made record offers to the UAW, he said they’re insufficient to make up for how much ground workers have lost during the past two decades. They want fear and they want uncertainty. “They just want to wait us out,” he said. Fain asserted that the companies are trying to divide the union. Though Fain said the UAW will make a push to secure more generous offers from the automakers, he addressed union members who have said they’re ready to vote on the deals. “We took their biggest plant out and they haven’t come back with anything new,” he said. That plant is the largest and most profitable Ford factory in the world. Arguing that Ford “pretends they can’t afford what we’re asking for,” Fain noted that the company has complained about the union’s walkout at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, which has had to shut down.
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