The following memo was sent to Stellantis members on October 4th, 2024:

As you are aware, Stellantis management has unleashed an all-out misinformation campaign in an attempt to scare and confuse us about our right to vote to authorize the International to call for a strike.

For days, they’ve been spamming our phones with messages about how harmful a strike would be. Yesterday, they filed a lawsuit against our union, and against UAW Local 230, the first Stellantis local to vote to authorize a strike. The company also sent letters threatening legal action to all of our locals, adding the insult of calling our grievances a “sham.”

Let us be clear…These are desperate actions from a desperate executive who have lost control.

The only sham is Stellantis’s promises. We won the right to strike over product & investments as listed in the 311 letter, which covers Belvidere, the Durango, and $19 billion in other commitments.

Our legal team has complete confidence in our right to strike. The company’s legal threats are just that—threats intended to intimidate us, so we won’t fight back. The company is claiming “market conditions” means they can walk away from those investments. But Ford and GM are doing just fine. If only one company is falling behind, that’s not “market conditions.” That’s mismanagement. Autoworkers in the plant, the people who make the product, will not keep paying for management’s failures.

Carlos Tavares’s plan is to cut his way out of this mess. And if he has to violate our contract to do it, that’s what he wants to do. Your job could be next, unless we stand up and use our power to put a stop to this dead-end strategy. That’s why Local 230 members just voted YES to authorize a strike at the Los Angeles PDC. And that’s why Stellantis members at locals across the country are getting organized to vote YES....