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The increasing number of rank and file authors voted against deals with Ford and General Motors, despite the increase in pay, which can reach 30% or more during the life of the contract.
The latest failures for the deals came with votes in a two GM factories, a truck factory in Flint, Michigan, a city known as the union’s birthplace and spring hill, a Tennessee plant that builds a SUV for Cadillac and GMC, which both voted not and from Ford workers in Louisville, Kentucky, Home of the largest and the most in the most common factories of the company
The Spring Hill plant is the latest to report the results and has the largest level of opposition to the transaction. Only 32% of 2,300 members who participated in the ratification vote supported the deal.
At the Flint truck plant, 52% of 3400 members voted against the deal. The votes have taken the total GM vote to only 52% voting to ratify so far.
Ford’s vote in Kentucky showed 55% of members at the Kentucky truck plant, who voted against the deal. This factory strikes with a little notice on October 12, about three weeks after the strike aimed at specific plants in the company. Members at the Louisville Louns Asembly, who belong to the same local Union, voted 53% in favor of the deal. The Kentucky local voted against Ford’s 2019 contract with an even more margin and this contract went through, despite its opposition.
While the ratification vote in both companies still has the support of the bigger part of the members, no vote is large enough at this time to guarantee the passage, especially with some great locals who cannot yet be weigh.
A tracking vote on the UAW site shows that 65% of Ford members who have voted so far approve the deal. But this is over 70%, who voted to “head over the weekend.”
“No” vote in any company can lead to the resumption of the strike, perhaps with a little notice. But this would not be unique, as there were several cases where rank and file voted against transactions agreed by their union and approved by its management.
UAW members in Mack Truck voted with a preliminary agreement with this heavy truck manufacturer on October 8 and have been on strike since then, although they have been in the process of voting a slightly different version of this rejected deal once again.
Speakers on both GM and Ford have refused to comment on ratification votes so far.
UAW President Sean Fine has repeatedly told members that these are record contracts and victories for members and that the Union negotiators win every last and penny that companies have to offer. But he also said that the final decision on what to do depends on rank and file.
While transactions immediately give an 11% increase in the pay of members, the guaranteed salary increases for a total of 14% more in the next four years and a life cost adjustment, which can lead to salaries to more than 30% when combined with guaranteed Said, this did not respond to all the requests for Union negotiations at the beginning of the conversations.
The Union began to immediately require a 20% increase and increases a total value of 40% in the life of the contract. And he wanted the return of traditional pension plans for workers hired after 2007, who have only a 401 (k) plan for their retirement and health coverage for retirees and their families.
When Fain and other Union employees were writing, deals reached with the three Facebook Live companies, comments that appeared in the issue showed that many members calling for other members to vote not for transactions.
Some members expressing complaints online claim that the deal has not made enough to help the more staff employees who have been with the companies since 2007 before being entitled to Medicare. And some just called on the members to vote no without a reason.
The results are due to other Ford locals by the end of this week, including large locals, which represent numerous plants in the same complex in Dearborn Michigan. GM and Stellantis votes are likely to extend the next week.
So far, the Stellantis vote has huge support, with 82% of members who voted in support of the deal. So far, the only unit of the Union in Stellantis, which votes No, is the one that represents about 300 workers in a center for the distribution of parts in Merisville, Michigan, about an hour north of Detroit.