UAW

After disagreements in personnel decisions, union bargaining chair Rich LeTourneau threatened to strike at the plant.

A local auto workers union and Allison Transmission in Indianapolis have reached a tentative agreement following calls by the union for a potential strike.

Full details of the agreement haven’t been shared publicly yet but it is expected to be very similar to the agreements struck with Ford and Chrysler-parent Stellantis last week.

The United Auto Workers union is ending its 44-day strike at Chrysler-parent Stellantis after reaching a tentative agreement that union leaders say “got every penny possible out of this company."

As of Friday, about 830 people have been taken off the Kokomo production lines. They will likely return to work once the strike ends.

The union demonstrated this new “phase” of the strike strategy last week by suddenly calling workers to strike at a major Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky.

Electric vehicle parts are often less complex than traditional gasoline-fueled vehicles. Union leaders worry jobs will be lost in the transition.

General Motors long argued its electric vehicle battery plants have no “legal or practical path” to be made part of the same union contract as the rest of its manufacturing workers. On Friday, the UAW announced the company has now agreed to do just that.

For the third week in a row, no Ford, General Motors or Stellantis facilities in Indiana were called to join the picket lines.

The state's workers are still being affected as UAW strikes at facilities in other states lead to reduced production and temporary layoffs across the auto supply chain.