Big 3 auto workers tend to rely on annual profit-sharing checks as a part of the compensation plans negotiated through the United Autoworkers Union.

This year, Ford employees are taking home just shy of $7,000. GM’s union workers were just awarded $10,500.

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So how does Stellantis - the other piece of this Detroit auto trifecta – stack up when it comes to these bonus payouts? They’re not even on the board.

Stellantis reported a significant annual loss for its 2025 fiscal year, which meant it fell below the minimum profit-sharing threshold spelled out in its 2023 contract with the UAW. And since there were no profits, the company’s employees received no bonus.

According to the Detroit Free Press, this is the first year in history that Stellantis has failed to award the profit-sharing checks.

And while it’s understandable that no money made means no money to give, this hasn’t stopped the finger pointing.

News of the absent bonuses “triggered predictable fury” according to Carscoops. UAW president Shawn Fain weighed in in his characteristic tone, calling it “a damn shame” adding that autoworkers “continue to pay the price for horrible mismanagement at Stellantis.”

Fain told The Detroit News that the union had previously “sounded the alarm on disgraced CEO Carlos Tavares” and “has been pushing the company to stop throwing money away to Wall Street” instead of investing in its plants, products and workers.

A worker at the Stellantis Mopar plant seemed to agree, saying Tavares “screwed up the entire company and … now we’re getting screwed.”

Even Stellantis itself made an attempt to cast blame backwards. The company said that 2025 “was a very challenging year” and that the company’s performance reflected “the cost of a profound and necessary business reset to correct past decisions.”

Company spokesperson Jodi Tinson said that the company is confident moving forward, however, noting that investments like adding the HEMI V8 back into the Ram 1500 “put the customer at the center” and will “support profitable growth.” Tinson added that these “decisive actions… will support profitable growth and put [Stellantis] on a better path for a stronger, more successful 2026.”

UAW vice president Rich Boyer was less charitable in his assessment of the company’s efforts to date, saying Stellantis “chose short-term profits over sustainability … and cut the heart and soul out of the plants to cover up the results.”

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