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GM Trails Ford, FCA in Number of UAW Workers
General Motors, once the largest employer of United Auto Workers union members, now trails domestic rivals Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles by a wide margin.
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General Motors, once the largest employer of United Auto Workers union members, now trails domestic rivals Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles by a wide margin.
At its peak four decades ago, GM employed more than 500,000 UAW workers. But by 2011, it had shed much of its partsmaking capacity, disposed of 14 factories and emerged from bankruptcy with only 48,500 UAW employees. That compared with 41,000 union members at Ford and 23,000 at FCA.
Today, Ford leads the trio with 56,000 UAW workers. FCA follows with 47,000, then GM at 46,000, according to company data compiled by Automotive News.
Even so, post-bankruptcy GM has invested $23 billion in its U.S. operations—about five times as much as in Mexico, according to Bloomberg News. The news service also points out the GM employs almost three times as many UAW members in the U.S. as hourly workers in Mexico.
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