DETROIT – The United Auto Workers union will announce further strikes at General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis plants if the edges do not make “serious progress” in negotiations by midday ET Friday, UAW President Shawn Fain introduced Monday evening.

The timing of the extra plants would come simply over every week after the union introduced focused strikes at meeting plants for every of the “Big Three” Detroit automakers, sending about 12,700 staff to picket traces.

“Autoworkers have waited long enough to make things right at the Big Three. We’re not waiting around, and we’re not messing around. So, noon on Friday, September 22nd is a new deadline,” Fain mentioned in a video released on-line by the union.

Fain beforehand mentioned the union deliberate to increase the work stoppages, based mostly on how negotiations with the businesses had been going. The announcement follows the union assembly with every of the automakers because the focused strikes started Friday.

Unlike the unique contract deadlines, Fain didn’t say tentative agreements wanted to be reached at the businesses to keep away from further strikes, simply “serious progress.” A union spokesman didn’t instantly reply for remark relating to what defines that other than a tentative deal.

Currently on strike are staff from GM’s midsize truck and full-size van plant in Wentzville, Missouri; Ford’s Ranger midsize pickup and Bronco SUV plant in Wayne, Michigan; and Stellantis’ Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator plant in Toledo, Ohio.

The union chosen the plants as a part of focused strike plans, as Fain and UAW leaders unconventionally negotiate with all three automakers at as soon as. It’s calling the work stoppages “stand-up strikes,” a nod to historic “sit-down” strikes by the UAW within the Thirties.

“The ‘Stand Up Strike’ is a new approach to striking. Instead of striking all plants all at once, select locals have been called on to ‘Stand Up’

and walk out on strike. If the automakers fail to make progress in negotiations and bargain in good faith going forward, more locals will be called on to Stand Up and join the strike,” Fain mentioned Monday.

Targeted strikes usually concentrate on key plants that may then trigger different plants to stop manufacturing attributable to a scarcity of components. They usually are not unprecedented, however the way in which the union is conducting them isn’t typical.

Ford and Stellantis didn’t instantly reply for touch upon the brand new “deadline.”

GM and Ford launched normal statements on the continuing talks, however each declined to remark straight on the union-imposed deadline Monday evening. Stellantis referred to a press release launched Monday afternoon about discussions with the union earlier within the day being “constructive and focused on where we can find common ground to reach an agreement.”

The further strike plans are regardless of automakers making document gives to the union that embody roughly 20% hourly wage will increase, 1000’s of {dollars} in bonuses, retention of the union’s platinum well being care and different sweetened advantages.

Key calls for from the union have included 40% hourly pay will increase, a diminished 32-hour workweek, a shift again to conventional pensions, the elimination of compensation tiers and a restoration of cost-of-living changes, amongst different objects.