Not all automotive workers who are members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are satisfied with the union’s tentative agreements with Stellantis, GM, and Ford, with many voting against the deals.
It’s been revealed that approximately 55% of the workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant had voted against the deal as of Monday but more than half of the plant’s employees still needed to vote. Additionally, approximately 52% of Local 862 workers across Ford’s two Kentucky factories had voted against the agreement on Monday.
While the union has not revealed the final percentage of votes in favor or against the deal, nor the total number of votes that have been cast, the UAW Local 862 union at the two sites confirmed that 55% of production workers voted against ratifying the contract while 69% of skilled trades workers voted in favor of it, CNBC reports. At the Louisville Assembly site, roughly 53% voted in favor of the new contract, perhaps encouraged by the fact that the site will receive a $1.2 billion investment and a new EV.
A UAW vote tracker indicates that 65.3% of its total Ford workers have voted in favor of the deal but voting at many assembly sites has yet to start, including the Dearborn Truck plant in Michigan. Depending on how things progress, it is possible that UAW and Ford representatives will have to resume negotiations in what has already been a long and drawn-out process for both parties.
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It was revealed last week that 52% of UAW-represented workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Flint, Michigan had voted against the proposed deal. This site is home to 4,746 workers. Those working at key GM plants including its Fort Wayne truck plant in Indiana and the Arlington assembly site in Texas have yet to vote on the proposed contract. As of Tuesday, 56% of total votes cast by GM workers were in favor of the deal.
Voting for the deal has only opened at six of the 35 facilities operated by Stellantis and represented by the UAW. Approximately 81.5% of votes are currently in favor of the new contract.
