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#6232 - 11/15/23 04:11 PM UAW workers at BGP want more  
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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 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.


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It is official, as members of the United Auto Workers have ratified the new four-year labor agreement with General Motors. The agreement was passed by a margin of 54.7% to 45.3% and won by just over 3,400 votes. There were nearly 36,000 who voted, according to the GM Ratification Vote Tracker.

Workers at the Corvette Assembly Plant rejected the plan, as did two other plants that also make components for the Corvette. Tonawanda (engines) voted 58% against it as did Bedford (castings) by 57%.
The measure got a boost when Arlington voted by 60% to ratify, and it was further boosted by the new EV plants which agreed to become union shops. Ultium Cells had 1,185 members who voted yes (97.5%) for the new agreement.

Hourly workers at GM component plants, parts distribution centers and battery plants canceled out opposition from higher-paid assembly plant employees to ratify a labor agreement that puts nearly everyone on the same wage scale.
The agreement passed by a margin of 55 % to 45 %, winning by nearly 3,300 votes out of more than 35,000 cast.

The deal received support from about 81 percent of workers at GM Components Holding plants and parts distribution centers, as well as 96 percent of those at two electric vehicle battery plants. Many will receive immediate raises of up to 89 percent.
Meanwhile, 53 percent of workers at GM’s assembly, metal and propulsion plants voted no.

Workers who already were on GM’s top wage scale will get immediate 11 percent raises upon ratification. All workers also get a $5,000 ratification bonus.
The UAW and GM declined to immediately comment Thursday.
The agreement was in doubt earlier in the week after workers at seven of the company's 11 U.S. assembly plants rejected it. But support from 61 percent of workers at Arlington Assembly in Texas helped to prevent the deal's failure.
In contrast to the close voting at GM, the UAW's deals with Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis are easily headed toward ratification. Both were passing by roughly 2-to-1 margins as of Thursday afternoon.

Highlights of the terms

The GM agreement, which runs through April 2028, includes roughly $2 billion in new investment for future electric vehicle and parts production at three plants, brings employees at GM's joint-venture battery plants under the national UAW agreement and bumps wages and retirement contributions for its U.S. hourly work force.
With the restoration of a cost-of-living adjustment, top wages would rise from about $32 per hour today to more than $42 by the end of the deal, and new hires would get to that level in three years instead of eight.

Temporary workers with at least 90 days on the job will see their wages rise between 51 and 115 percent at ratification as they are converted to full-time employees with seniority, the union has said.
Workers at GM’s parts distribution centers and components plants will move to the main production rate under the new agreement. Their wages currently start around $16 or $17 per hour, with top wages maxing out at less than $32 per hour for manufacturing workers.
The wage gains in this contract for newer employees at a GM parts distribution center in Hudson, Wis., will be “life-changing,” said Steve Frisque, president of UAW Local 722, where 93 percent of workers voted to ratify the deal.

“We feel they’re working right alongside us and should be making the same wage,” Frisque said.

He said he understands the desire among workers with more seniority to push for greater gains, including retirement benefits, but he believes the union was able to achieve everything it could in this round of talks.

“There’s only so much you’re going to get in negotiations,” he said. “Four years from now, we’ll go for the rest.”

Yet it’s not certain whether the economy will be as strong when the next round of bargaining begins in 2028, said Tony Totty, president of UAW Local 14, which represents hourly workers at the Toledo Propulsion Systems plant in Ohio.

Most Toledo workers opposed the deal, according to the union’s vote count. Totty said the plant has many employees who are nearing retirement in the upcoming contract cycle, and many employees are concerned retirement benefits in the agreement don’t go far enough.

GM agreed to increase its contribution into employees' 401(k) retirement accounts to 10 percent from 6.4 percent, and provide a $5 increase to the basic monthly benefit for traditional pension holders, which the UAW said would equate to an increase of $1,800 annually for future pensioners, the union said in a document highlighting the key contract changes.

The contract provides gains that workers are pleased with, but “there’s still a glaring hole in it, and that’s for the pension,” Totty told Automotive News.
“This is a better deal for somebody who doesn’t even work for our company yet than for somebody who just put in 30 years,” he said.
“Now’s the time to fix it.”
Art Wheaton, a labor relations expert at Cornell University, said the close vote wasn’t a bad thing.

“It’s the sign of good negotiations,” Wheaton said. “If they got a 99 percent vote, that means GM overspent. If they got 49 percent, that means GM was too cheap. If you’re at more than 50 percent, it means you threaded the needle.”


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