UAW, Ford reach tentative contract deal, ratification vote next

UAW officials struck an agreement with GM late last month, just weeks after settling negotiations with Fiat Chrysler Automobile.

The votes are scheduled and conduced by the UAW’s locals – or put another way, the union’s organization at each GM facility holds its own vote. Workers at several factories subsequently rejected during the initial round of voting.

Raises, bonuses and GM’s commitment to plant upgrades seemed to brighten the future for workers.

The contract will cover about 50,000 union members nationwide, including workers at the Lima, Ohio engine plant.

With ratifications Wednesday at the Ft.

Pockets of resistance, however, remain.

General Motors Co workers are in the final stages of voting on their new four-year contract, which is expected to be approved after large plant results have been announced in favor of the deal.

Whether or not a majority of GM workers approve the new contract should be known by the weekend.

Voting in the GM-UAW contract is expected be complete Saturday.

Union leaders will meet in Detroit Monday to review the deal. Workers at GM’s Defiance Castings Operations were to vote this week. They also give pay increases to longtime workers for the first time in a decade.

Southern California grocery chains, Ralphs, Vons, and Albertsons, ratified a five-year contract with the Teamsters covering 2,000 drivers, warehouse workers, and dairy and manufacturing employees. That plant that makes the Chevrolet Traverse and other SUVs.

One witness was a Volkswagen maintenance worker – also known as a skilled team member.

A veteran Delta worker said she also planned to vote “no”.

Members of the UFCW ratified a three-year contract with Rite Aid Corp. covering 6,000 retail clerks, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians in Southern California. Workers told The Daily Herald they expect production to start February 1. That is unfair. The company is profitable.

We don’t know yet why workers rejected the offer with 289 no votes to 74 votes cast in favor of the deal.

But apparently, not all of GM’s workers agree. Now there are only 52,700. The union says the company will move to Mexico if we demand our pay and conditions back.

“They’re seeing nearly a 100 percent increase”, according to Summell.

The much smaller group of Skilled Trades Workers in the plant resoundingly voted no by a 59-to-41 percent margin. “The supposed raise is a slap in the face. And now the UAW is fighting for us to get the wages and benefits we deserve”. What did the sit-downers in Flint have to endure?