Workers at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee have voted against ratification of the recent tentative agreement between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors. The new UAW tentative agreement was reached late last month after a 46-day strike. Ratification voting results have been a mixed bag, with estimates placing the total vote tally near 50/50.
Per a report from The Detroit News, 67.5 percent of UAW members at the GM Spring Hill facility (UAW Local 1853) voted against the new contract, while 32.5 percent voted in favor. Among production workers, 71 percent voted against the contract, while 56 percent of skilled trades workers voted against. The outlet also reports that 90 percent of workers at the General Motors subsidiary GM Subsystems LLC voted in favor of the contract. Subsidiary workers are expected to receive a major wage increase if the the tentative agreement is ratified.
Meanwhile, workers at the General Motors Factory Zero plant and General Motors Lake Orion plant, both located in Michigan, have voted in favor of the agreement, albeit by a slim margin.
Ratification votes for the new UAW agreement have been ongoing all this month. Workers at the General Motors Flint plant in Michigan voted against the agreement last week, with 48.2 percent of members voting in favor, and 51.8 percent voting against. Workers at the General Motors Romulus Powertrain plant, Pontiac Metal Center, and Marion Metal Center also narrowly voted against the new contract.
As ratification vote results continue to trickle in, the overall consensus looks closely split, with the latest estimates narrowly placing the yes votes ahead of the no votes. That said, votes from several General Motors facilities have yet to be added to the final tally.
The new tentative UAW agreement with General Motors follows similar contract agreements with Ford and Stellantis. The General Motors agreement was negotiated after a 46-day strike that’s estimated to have cost the automaker hundreds of millions of dollars per week. The new agreement includes substantial wage increases, including a rate of $40 per hour for temporary workers hired this year by the end of the contract, $42 per hour by 2028 for production workers when factoring in cost of living adjustments (COLA), a starting wage of $30 per hour by 2028, and a wage of $50 per hour for skilled trades employees.
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Then GM and the big 3 are screwed. Plain and simple. Fain promised too much…
LOL
Ha ha ha. When the machine turns on it’s creator. It’s a very good day to NOT be Shawn Fain.
Myself I have placed a order for a 24 canyon at4. Don’t know when if at all order will put in place.. New contract surely gives workers a HEFTY raise, much more than I will ever see in that short of time span.. SHAME on the workers for being so GREADY. Fire the ones who don’t want to work and hire people that want to work.. Maybe we can get Americans proud again to buy American made vehicles.
I have a Lyriq sitting and waiting for shipment for 3 1/2 months. With all the complains on delivered Lyriq having noting but production issues why should Spring Hill get a raise. Cadillac production quality is at a las time low
Ahh, so now the production line workers are also responsible for vendor quality control, picking the vendors who actually supply the parts and also designing the car right? Hint……That’s ALL done by salaried management people!
Just because your family for generations got theirs F everybody afterwards??? No F..U go cry elsewhere!
You only posting the plants that voted No, Got to be a lot of plants voting Yes. The votes are about 50/50. Stop being prejudice
Relax guys, the majority are going for it. They’ll ratify it.
Thinking this contract was only for temp hires ; the temps hired from “Saturn Days”also known as 96 ers never got their first original hire dates! We started almost 9 months -year and never had any union fight for us even though we paid union dues from the “95 “ dates that we started! I feel we should have had a union fight to get that back for us as well!