Late last year, GM Authority reported that General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union were negotiating a separate agreement for workers at Ultium Cells plants. With that in mind, the Detroit-based automaker and UAW Local 1112 – which represents unionized workers at the Ultium Cells Lordstown plant in Ohio – have reached a tentative agreement.
The two entities have arrived at a tentative agreement that would raise the starting wage to $26.91 an hour, up from $20 an hour. After a year on the job, workers will see wages rise to $35 an hour by the end of the deal. Beyond that, the provisional deal includes a 30-percent wage increase over three years for many workers, along with a $3,000 ratification bonus.
“Eighteen months ago, this company was on a low road path to poverty wages, unsafe conditions, and a dark future for battery workers in America,” UAW President Shawn Fain remarked in a prepared statement. “Ultium workers said, ‘Hell no,’ got organized, and fought back. Now they’ve more than doubled their wages by the end of this contract, won record health and safety language, and showed the world what it means to win a just transition.”
From here, 1,600 UAW members at the Ultium Cells Lordstown facility will review the details of the agreement and hold a ratification vote sometime in the coming days. If approved, the agreement could set a new precedent for EV workers.
“We were told at the beginning of bargaining that Ultium workers would never be allowed to join the UAW’s national agreement at GM,” UAW Vice President Mike Booth stated. “Not only did we prove them wrong, but we did them one better, winning a major local agreement that sets the standard for the EV battery industry.”
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and a year from now, there will be massive layoffs after GM moves the battery plant to mexico.
Do you wake up like that?
It's to damn bad Mr. Shawn Fain doesn't care that much about retired GM workers! We are the ones who went out on strike in 1970 to win some of these things that workers benefit from these days and what did we get on the last contract, a lousy $500 bonus once a year! Meanwhile Biden's inflation is eating us alive! And Mr. Fain has the balls to endorse Biden for another four years! If that happens, God forbid , we will be the new poor!