KANSAS CITY, Kan. — General Motors offered a new deal to the United Auto Workers as the strike nears a month.
The automaker's latest offer gives more money, a total of $7.7 billion, in direct U.S. factory investments, according to CNBC.
GM said the latest offer addresses the UAW's top concerns.
"We presented another offer we felt achieved our mutual objectives," GM Executive Vice President for Global Manufacturing Gerald Johnson said in a letter to union members. "It would increase compensation through wages and lump-sum payments, preserve industry-leading health care benefits without increasing out-of-pocket costs, enhance profit-sharing with unlimited upside, and improve the ratification bonus. For temporary workers, our offer also would create a clear path to permanent employment and include a ratification bonus."
It's a deal the UAW leadership will either accept or counter. UAW Local 31 President Clarence Brown said it's a waiting game.
"When they say, 'hey, we've got a tentative agreement,' that's when we can start thinking about that," Brown said. "Until then, I ask my members to please concentrate on your families and leave rumors be rumors."
Meanwhile, UAW members at the Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas City, Kansas, continue to protest on the picket lines in all kinds of weather elements.
"We're running into some cold weather now, so we're going to have to figure out another way to get them enthused," Brown said.
Workers are currently receiving $250 per week in strike pay.
