Fiat Chrysler Sales Jump 14 Pct Amid Big Sector Expectations

Late Wednesday, members at the last plant to vote in Belvidere, Illinois, turned down the contract.

A worker at the plant said most workers view the notice as a clear sign that management is now looking to make life hard for employees for voting against the proposed contract.

“What they were offered anyway was not really a raise. We anticipate them coming to us”.

Detroit’s auto workers haven’t rejected a national contract in many years. They took the time to review the summary and a few of us actually read the contract.

Chrysler Chairman and CEO Sergio Marchionne (left) and Fiat-Chrysler association president John Elkann (R) look over a Maserati Alfieri on media day March 4, 2014, ahead of the 84th Geneva Motor Show at the Palexpo Arena in Geneva.

But Keller expected the reductions to be temporary, and for the union to negotiate a return to equal pay for equal work.

“The tentative agreement was created to yield a strong and competitive FCA United States, thus providing stability for our workforce and opportunity for future growth and investment in an increasingly complex global marketplace”, automaker said. The WSWS Autoworker Newsletter “played a huge role in getting people educated, getting the message out”. Seventy-two percent of workers at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Michigan voted against the deal according to photos of the final results. “A strike doesn’t give the same leverage, in the sense of the totally positive result it would have given back when the unions represented the key employers and majority of employees in the industry”.

“A strike puts pressure on all the parties to come back to the (bargaining) table”, she said. “I agree that it is rigged”. Personally, I do not think the UAW will fight. “It was very disheartening”, he said. Dave Cole, chairman emeritas of the Center for Automotive Research, said that the union had wanted an elimination of the two-tiered wage system. You have people making all different wages while they are doing the same exact job.

Ford Motor Co.’s 23 percent advance marked its biggest increase in almost five years, with deliveries rising 23 percent at the Ford brand and 20 percent at Lincoln. To the best of my knowledge, the union never said a word. Members at the Toledo, Ohio, assembly plant rejected the pact Tuesday.

“The SAAR will benefit from a healthy increase in promotional activity” throughout September, Johnson said. “Warren Truck was threatened with the loss of vehicles if they didn’t vote ‘yes.’ We better be prepared to do the right thing now”. Mathematically, the deal can not pass.

“We now have the ability to instantly communicate”. I can message them on Facebook, send text messages, phone calls. Fiat Chrysler estimated a SAAR of 18 million after subtracting about 400,000 medium- and heavy-duty trucks from its forecast. We are getting a lot of support from Ford and GM workers.

UAW President Dennis Williams played down the rejection – the first since 1982 at Chrysler – as “part of the process” that the union prides itself on. What he is doing is great for PR. It is great for morale. We have heard that Ford is going to be next.