UAW expands strike, hitting Stellantis’ key RAM truck plant: ‘Worst proposal’

The United Auto Workers union struck Chrysler parent Stellantis’ largest assembly plant on Monday, hitting the automaker’s profitable RAM 1500 pickup truck production in a major expansion of the more than month-old strike. The UAW, which is striking the three big Detroit automakers, blamed the latest walkout by 6,800 workers at the Michigan plant on Stellantis having the “worst proposal” on the table on wage increases, temporary worker pay and conversion to full time status as well as cost-of-living adjustments. More than 40,000 union members working at Ford, General Motors...