Workers at the GM Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan have rejected the new tentative agreement between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors. Ratification votes among UAW membership have been ongoing since union negotiators reached an acceptable contract proposal with the automaker late last month. In order to put the new agreement into effect, a majority of UAW members across General Motors’ UAW-represented workforce must vote in favor of the agreement.
According to a report from local NBC affiliate WILX-10, which cites ratification vote results from UAW Local 602, 61 percent of UAW workers at the Lansing Delta Township plant voted against the new proposal, while 39 percent voted in favor. The vote was split between production workers and skilled trades workers, with 37 percent of production workers voting in favor and 63 percent voting against, and 60 precent of skilled trades workers voting in favor and 40 percent voting against.
UAW members at the Lansing Delta Township plant voted on ratification between November 13th, 2023, and November 14th, 2023. The results from Lansing Delta Township follow ratification vote results from the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, where UAW members also voted down the proposal, with 67.5 percent of union members voting against, and 32.5 percent voting in favor. Workers at the GM Lake Orion plant and GM Factory Zero plant, both of which are located in Michigan, have voted in favor of the agreement, albeit by a slim margin. Last week, workers at the GM Flint plant in Michigan voted against the agreement, while workers at the GM Romulus Powertrain plant, Pontiac Metal Center, and Marion Metal Center have also voted against the agreement.
At present estimates from ratification votes across GM’s UAW-represented facilities place the overall total at an even split between those in favor and those against ratifying the new contract. That said, it’s now looking as though the overall vote may tip to No once the votes from a few of the automaker’s big plants are tabulated, including Arlington, Fort Wayne, and Wentzville.
Meanwhile, UAW members at Ford and Stellantis appear to be voting in favor of their respective agreements.
The latest General Motors contract proposal was reached after a 46-day strike.
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This is comical.
LOL
This is most ironic given the celebrations already thrown over the deal being made. Any specific reasons why this may be the case?
The big three should cut their offer 10% and stick to it.
Next offer gives them the 35% but closes Fairfax expect it to pass 85% except at Fairfax, but first a 60 day lock out to punish the UAW and drain what is left in the strike fund.
Seems like its time to bring in the robots on the production line.
That makes zero sense. Where does that get anyone? So you want to pull the offer off of the table that was put there and ratified by the UAW workers at two of the manufacturers?
Each company GM Ford Stellantis have separate contract- they just expire at same time and are “patterned” off of each other.
It looks like the skilled trades, which are the backbone of every manufacturing facility, have more common sense than the production workers. No need to explain why, for me it’s obvious.
This is idiocy! I guess they don’t want jobs that pay more than the $500 Fain will be paying them (from the UAW strike fund – until it runs out).
Fain got them the deal of a lifetime! GM should cut the entire deal in half and WALK AWAY from the table! I’m all for people making an honest wage, but this is ridiculous! If this keeps up, GM may as well shutter everything, until the greed turns into common sense! If that’s even a possibility!!
This is so disappointing!! I’ve been driving GMs for the last 45 years!! So much for my new 2024 vehicle being a GM product!!
UPDATE FROM 11/16/23 @ 12:52PM EST, PER THE DETROIT FREE PRESS:
United Auto Workers members at General Motors appear to have ratified a record labor contract Thursday despite some of GM’s big assembly plants voting it down in recent days.
According to the union’s online voting tracker all the votes are in and the tentative contract with GM has passed by 54.7%. The vote is unofficial.
A source with the union, who cannot be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly, confirmed the tracker is complete and it is “safe to report” that the deal is ratified with 19,683 members voting “yes” and 16,274 voting “no.”
About 36,000 members at GM facilities turned out to vote. There are about 48,000 union members who work for GM.
A slim victory
GM spokesman David Barnas said the company will decline to comment until the union formally announces the agreement is ratified. GM leaders have said they will hold an investor call some time after the deal is ratified to go over the financial implications for the company.
The UAW also did not comment.
The news comes after days of questions over whether it would pass at GM following seven of GM’s 11 U.S. assembly plants voting it down. But as the Detroit Free Press reported late Wednesday, there remained only a handful of small GM facilities with a total of about 1,000 members still needing to vote. At that time, even if they all were to vote no, the agreement was poised to pass.
The majority or the skilled workers have accepted the deal of a lifetime which was approved by the UAW leader. The unskilled workers turned it down.
The prices of all GM vehicles is going to go up and all the competition is going to have a larger and larger market share while there will be lower and lower demand for GM vehicles and a corresponding lower and lower need for GM workers. The first to go will be the unskilled workers. You can’t but the company you work for in a position to make less money as a result of selling fewer vehicles do to the wage increase an expect to keep your job.
Do these people even try to think things through?
Layoff the unskilled workers and hire some of the many people that would be happy to take their place.
Retake the vote.
Win Win, get rid of the one you don’t want and don’t need and ratify the contract with new happy employees.