Corvette Assembly Plant Workers Vote Down the Proposed GM/UAW Deal

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Keith Cornett
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Corvette Assembly Plant Workers Vote Down the Proposed GM/UAW Deal

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On Tuesday, UAW Local 2164 that serves the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green held their vote to ratify the proposed GM/UAW agreement that was hammered out at the beginning of the month. The final vote for BGAP was 53% voting NO to the agreement.


Within most GM production facilities are two tiers of employees, those who are skilled trades and the regular production workers. In BGAP, there were 841 production workers and 76 skilled trade workers who participated in the vote. The breakdown according to an online UAW Vote Tracker was:

Production/Division 1
• 415 voted YES (49.35%)
• 426 voted NO (51.00%)

Skilled Trades/Division 2
• 23 voted YES (30%)
• 53 voted NO (70%)

The voting for the GM/UAW agreement will continue through the week. For the agreement to pass, a majority of workers across the organization must vote in favor of it and that means the strike would officially be over. However, we are seeing a trend happening with other facilities also voting down the proposed agreement which would raise wages by 25% and provide a host of other benefits including cost of living adjustments.

Yesterday we told you that Flint workers voted down the agreement as did those at Spring Hill in Tennessee. Today we learned that several more GM plants have voted NO to the agreement. They are Lansing (61% vs 39%), Tonawanda (57.3% vs 42.7%) and Defiance (56% vs 44%).

The Fairfax facility in Kansas City voted in favor of the agreement, but the margin to pass was just six votes for production workers. Workers in Detroit and Orion Township also voted in favor of the agreement.

GM has 46,000 UAW workers and the UAW Vote Tracker shows there has been 22,150 workers who have voted. The total vote shows the agreement passing by the slim margin of 52.16% YES vs 47.84% NO at the time this was posted.

We’ll be watching the tally of votes to see if the agreement makes it over the finish line.


Source:
Automotive News

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6 COMMENTS

  2. What the big 3 should be SERIOUSLY considering is a Defined Benefit Retirement !! Yes it is $$$$, BUT not when you consider the concessions the union made during the recession, and the crazy $$$$ profits the big 3 has made since then and don’t get.me started on the CEO’S

  3. If you want to know why manufacturing jobs are leaving the USA, look no further than the unions.

  4. I remember going on a tour of the Corvette plant back in 1994 and I didn’t see anybody busting their asses there.

  5. Seems that going on strike is universally popular right now. My favorite are the “non citizens” who traveled often 1000’s of miles to get here for “a better life” but are now saying it is not good enough.

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