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 BGP 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 BGP, there were 841 production workers and 76 skilled trade workers who participated in the vote.
The breakdown according to an online UAW Vote Tracker is :
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, seeing a trend happening with other facilities also voting down the proposed agreement which would raise wages by 25% & provide a host of other benefits including cost of living adjustments.
Flint workers voted down the agreement, as did those at Spring Hill in Tennessee.
Today, it was 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.