FILE: STRIKE LEADING TO LAYOFFS AT FORD, GM
<p>Strike leading to layoffs at Ford, GM</p>\n<p>-From CNN’s Chris Isidore</p>\n<p>Ford and General Motors confirmed Friday that 2,600 UAW members will be laid off due to the strike. </p>\n<p>The union has had 12,700 workers at three assembly plants on strike since early Friday, but that's less than 10% of the 145,000 members at more than 100 factories, warehouses and other facilities across the nation.</p>\n<p>But Ford said about 600 workers at Michigan Assembly Plant’s sub-assembly and stamping departments who were not on strike were told not to report to work Friday because their work couldn't be done without the final assembly and paint department at the plant, which are on strike.</p>\n<p>GM said about 2,000 UAW members at the Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, will be laid off at some point early next week without a quick end to the strike because it depends upon stampings from the nearby plant in Wentzville, Missouri, which is one of the three plants on strike. Fairfax makes the Chevrolet Malibu and Cadillac XT4 and is the only factory to make those two models.</p>\n<p>Stellantis, which builds vehicles for the US market under the Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Chrysler brands, has not announced any ripple effects from the strike leading to layoffs as of yet.</p>\n<p>When the UAW announced plans for targeted strikes against only a certain number of facilities, many experts were expecting it to strike plants that made parts, such as engines and transmissions. Striking even one of the automakers' transmission plants would result in a cut of 75% of that company's US vehicle output, according to industry consultant Jeff Schuster, the global head of automotive for GlobalData.</p>\n<p>“Two plants per company, you can pretty much idle North America,” he said.</p>\n<p>The UAW decided to strike only three major assembly plants, one at each company, at least for now. That allowed each company to keep most of its assembly lines working, and most of the145,000 UAW members on the job.</p>\n<p>The union criticized the GM and Ford layoffs and said it is ready if needed to expand the strike to other plants to ramp up pressure on the companies.</p>\n<p>"If the Big Three decide to lay people off who aren’t on strike, that’s them trying to put the squeeze on our members to settle for less," UAW President Shawn Fain said Saturday in a statement. "With their record profits, they don’t have to lay off a single employee."<b>--TEASE--</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SOT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>