Tag: Big Three

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union and Ford could soon reach a tentative labor deal.

Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” could be the theme song for the sheet market over the last month. A UAW strike? Shake it off. The lowest ABI since December 2020? Shake it off. A potentially widening conflict in the Middle East? Shake it off. Sheet prices have been rising since late September, and hot-rolled coil […]

The UAW went on strike on Tuesday at General Motor’s truck and SUV plant in Arlington, Texas – the automakers’ largest assembly plant in the US.

This week could be a big one for steel, or at least for the steel rumor mill. For starters, there is renewed speculation that an announcement about the U.S. Steel sales process could be in the works. The rumor mill is also churning fast when it comes to the duration of the UAW strike and […]

United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain indicated on Friday that a deal between the UAW and the “Big Three” automakers could be in sight.

As the ferrous scrap market in the US enters the home stretch for 2023, it faces an array of issues and uncertainties.

Canada’s Unifor, which represents union-represented auto workers there, has opened negotiations with automaker Stellantis.

If you think prices will continue to rise, you might point to longer lead times and stable order entry.

Unifor members in Canada have ratified a new three-year labor agreement with General Motors

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union announced a new phase in its ongoing stand-up strike against the Big Three Detroit-area automakers on Friday.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) unexpectedly expanded its strike against Ford on Wednesday evening, when 8,700 union members walked out of the automaker’s Kentucky Truck Plant.

Canada’s Unifor union reached a tentative labor agreement with General Motors on Tuesday, Oct. 10.

A service center executive recently told me that the best way to make a fool of yourself was to try to predict what flat-rolled steel prices were going to do. He hadn’t expected that hot-rolled coil prices would rebound from less than $600 per ton ($30 per cwt) for some larger buyers to potentially more […]

The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) strike against the Big Three Detroit-area automakers was not expanded on Friday, as “significant progress” is being made in contract negotiations.

The Big Three automakers reported their third-quarter sales this week, with two of the three showing strong year-over-year gains.

Steel prices continued to decline last month – a trend we’ve seen repeated since mid-April.

A UAW strike at Mack Trucks was avoided this week when a tentative labor agreement was reached.

The US scrap market for October is a bit unsettled as the UAW strike against the Big Three automotive companies has expanded and shows scant signs of an imminent settlement.

SMU's weekly survey reflects what people in the market are talking about. Lately, a popular topic has been the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union expanded its strike on Friday, calling on an additional 7,000 workers at Ford and General Motors plants to strike as of 12 p.m. ET.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain is scheduled to make an announcement on Facebook Live, according to the UAW International Union's Facebook page.