{"id":603,"date":"2019-09-19T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2019-10-04T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:28:43","slug":"gm-ford-expecting-a-uaw-fight-that-fca-will-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2019\/09\/gm-ford-expecting-a-uaw-fight-that-fca-will-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"GM, Ford expecting a UAW fight that FCA will miss?"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Motors (GM) and Ford stocked up on vehicles for September, as GM faces difficult talks with the United Auto Workers (UAW). The UAW picked America\u2019s largest automaker, GM, as a strike target this year; it extended its contracts with Ford and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) by a month so there would only be one negotiation at a time.<\/p>\n

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GM started the month with many strengths, including the use of a corruption\u00a0scandal within the UAW (not implicating anyone on the negotiating team) and a stunning 820,000 cars and trucks in inventory. That number, based on Automotive News<\/em> estimates, is good for a whopping 80 days of sales, though on some products the inventory is tighter. Cadillac has a 94-day supply and Buick has a 104-day supply, so the higher-margin brands should come out well even if there is a strike\u2014as long as buyers don\u2019t insist on custom-ordering from the factory. Chevrolet has a total of 76 days of supply; GMC has 82.<\/p>\n

Ford has also stocked up, and is holding 621,000 cars and trucks\u2014an 82-day supply. The high-end Lincoln brand has a 101-day supply of cars and trucks, though some of that may not be intentional (a 105-day supply of Mustangs is not likely to be part of a strike preparation strategy; a 104-day supply of Explorers might be).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, FCA seems to think the negotiations will go well, or is more scared of a recession than a strike. The company has 514,000 vehicles stashed here and there, which is a 67-day supply\u2014not outrageously high. While Fiat doesn’t have large absolute numbers, lack of sales success has given it a 148-day supply. The distribution of inventory doesn’t show any preference for higher-end cars or trucks.<\/p>\n

It may be a coincidence, but it sure looks as though GM and Ford are gearing up for tough negotiations, while FCA figures its new Detroit plant and smaller size will help it through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Motors (GM) and Ford stocked up on vehicles for September, as GM faces difficult talks with the United Auto Workers (UAW). The UAW picked America\u2019s largest automaker, GM, as a strike target this year; it extended its contracts with Ford and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) by a month so there would only be one negotiation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,4,9,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/strike2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}